The Committee of the Parents of the Missing and Disappeared

30 Years of Struggle and Protest

Bibliographic Data

ID10281184
AuthorsMarwan George Rowayheb (La Roche College, corresponding author), Makram E Ouaiss (La Roche College, corresponding author), Makram Ouaiss
Year2015
Volume51
Issue6
Pages1010-1026
Publication date2015-09-18
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00263206.2015.1045495
OpenAlexW1717844866
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This article investigates the work of a Lebanese non-governmental organization (NGO) called the Committee of the Parents of the Missing and the Disappeared. Although the successive Lebanese governments, most political leaders, ex-militia leaders and ex-combatants did not want to help in revealing the truth about what had happened to the people who went missing during the Lebanese civil war of 1975, the Committee managed to mobilize the families of the missing people under one banner for more than 30 years and was successful in making the Lebanese government and the legal authorities take few but important decisions that favoured the cause of the families of the missing people. It managed to do so without being deterred by the social, political and economic challenges it faced and due to the ability of its leadership to clearly define the sources of contention it wanted to protest against and by selecting the protests methods that best serve its cause

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