Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Arab American University Ramallah Campus hosted the former South African Ambassador to the State of Palestine Mr. Rafique Gangat in a lecture for Conflict Resolution and Development Master Students, to talk about interlocking boundaries between strategic and effective communication on one hand, and conflicts resolution on the other, knowing these two fields are intertwined with each other and with other knowledge fields.
The Ambassador Ghangat was welcomed by the Conflict Resolution and Development lecturer at the Faculty of Graduate Studies Dr. Ayman Yousef and Administrative Director of Ramallah Campus Mr. Mohammad Saba’na.
The lecture was attended by the conflict resolution and development program students who interacted with great passion as the lecturer used interactive tools, brainstorming and humor to manage the lecture, which had a great impact in making a change in them, conceptually and theoretically as all these theoretical methods were linked to the Palestinian case reality.
Researcher Azhar Abdelkarim Hamdan, a computer science student at the Arab American University Faculty of Graduate Studies, defended her master thesis entitled “The use of GIS based on decision support to manage water distribution networks – Nablus city as Case Study”.
She addressed the use of GIS and hydraulic analysis systems to build an intelligent system capable of connecting all components of the water network and finding water losses. The researcher recommended building accurate geographic water networks databases to enable it to intelligently save, display and manage data, leading to right decisions backed with science and accurate information.
Samira Moath Al-Masri, a commercial law student in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Arab American University, defended her thesis entitled “Legal Regulation for Restructuring Public Shareholding Companies in Palestine: Comparative Study”.
The researcher mentioned what is Public Shareholding Companies Restructuring. The study concluded that the restructuring of companies includes administrative and financial restructuring to preserve the company continuity and sustainability, and avoid stumbling or liquidation. She recommended the necessity of having appropriate legal framework for restructuring companies in Palestine to organize their work.