ACLED

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

Blue Line

Demarcation line established by the United Nations in June 2000 to confirm Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon. It extends approximately 120 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea to the Shebaa Farms area and is used by UNIFIL as a reference for monitoring activities along the Lebanese and Israeli border.

Confessional system

Lebanon’s system of proportional power-sharing among religious communities, also called sectarian power-sharing, confessional democracy, or, in academic terms, consociational democracy

Domicide

Mass destruction of homes

DPAR

Directorate of Political Affairs and Refugees

HJC

High Judicial Council (Supreme Judicial Council)

GBV

Gender-Based Violence

IDP

Internally Displaced Person

ISF

Internal Security Forces (Lebanese National Police)

LAF

Lebanese Armed Forces

LF

Lebanese Forces: Christian political party in Lebanon that originated as a militia during the civil war (1975-1990) and is now a right-leaning party opposed to Syrian influence and Hezbollah

LGBTIQ

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer

March 8 Alliance

Pro-Syrian/Iranian Lebanese political coalition led by Hezbollah

March 14 Alliance

Anti-Syrian Lebanese political coalition

Majlis al-nuwwab

Arabic term for the Lebanese parliament (Chamber of Deputies)

NACC

National Anti-Corruption Commission

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisation

PFLP GC

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command

PIJ

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization

Shebaa Farms

Disputed territory at Lebanon–Syria–Israel border

Sabra

A neighbourhood in Beirut near the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp that became an informal extension of it after 1948 due to population displacement and informal housing.

Shatila

A Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut established after the 1948 displacement, located near the Sabra neighbourhood, which later became an extension of Sabra through population growth and informal settlement.

Taif Agreement

1989 accord that ended the Lebanese Civil War, revising the 1943 National Pact

UNIFIL

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon