Abstract
A pervasive problem in many developing and newly independent states is what Lawrence Rosen terms tension between revival of traditional legal cultures and promotion of national unity through generally applicable statutes without alienating those who recognize different, often incompatible, legal regimes. ' Elia Zureik noted that the crux of central dilemma facing Arab regimes is how to deal with multiple societal allegiances predicated in some instances, but not always, on primordial attachments, while at same time increasing scope of state legitimacy.2 These general problems of relation between law, state, and primary forms of identity and loyalty are equally relevant to PLO in pre-1982 Lebanon. This paper will explore a few selected facets of issue of incipient state formation and law in Palestinian community in Lebanon prior to 1982, when PLO exercised a considerable degree of authority in refugee camps and over daily lives of most Palestinians in country.3 The cases presented are intended to show interplay between conflict resolution forums, procedures, and outcomes once customary in rural
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