Palestinian Ngos In Israel

Author : Shany Payes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857715500

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Palestinian NGOs in Israel by Shany Payes Pdf

One in every six Israeli citizens is a Palestinian Arab. While much has been written about the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, the struggle for political rights by Palestinian citizens of Israel remains largely unexplored. Shany Payes offers a fresh look at this struggle through analysis of the increasingly growing sector of Palestinian non-governmental organisations. Charting the political history of these associations over the last quarter of a century and running right up to developments during the recent Intifada, she analyses the political repression of Palestinian civil society by the Israeli state and attempts by Palestinian NGOs in Israel to build a civil society in the face of such oppression. 'Palestinian NGOs' is required reading for all those interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict, minority rights and civil society. A lively and orginal contribution to a field in which there is already much interest but where few works of any substance have been produce. I enjoyed the work immensely, and would certainly recommend it warmly both to students and to those with a lively interest in things Palestinian - Philip Robins, St Antony's College, Oxford Provides a fresh insight into political repression of Palestinian civil society by the Israeli state and attempts by Palestinian NGOs to build a civil society in the face of such oppression...The result is a unique piece of work which other academics would be hard pressed to emulate - Gerard Clarke, Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea

Author : Shany Payes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 600001046X

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Palestinian NGOs in Israel by Shany Payes Pdf

Author : Sārī Ḥanafī,Lindā Ṭabar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-
ISBN : UOM:39015066840441

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The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite by Sārī Ḥanafī,Lindā Ṭabar Pdf

This book aims to inquire into the ways in which external actors influence Palestinian NGOs in terms of their development policies and their relative promotion of democratization, and secondly, to investigate the capacity of Palestinian NGOs to contribute to the elaboration of global agendas through transnational activism and global conferences. In order to circumscribe this broad problematic, the empirical data was drawn from organizations working within three sectors: in health, in gender and development, and in human rights and democracy. As the empirical investigation for this study proceeded, this study became aware that an examination of the sites where the ‘global’ and the ‘local’ intersect and intertwine is inseparable from an analysis of the effects of new transnational relations, specifically the aid system, and their impact on local social formations. This is to say that local actors and social structures do not remain static, but are transformed as they are drawn into new transnational relations and then seek to negotiate their place within the aid industry and their relations with donors and international NGOs.

Author : Nadia Naser-Najjab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838603861

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Dialogue in Palestine by Nadia Naser-Najjab Pdf

Since 1993, various international donors have poured money into a People-to-People (P2P) diplomacy programme in Palestine. This grassroots initiative – still funded by prominent external donors today - seeks to foster public engagement through contact and therefore remove deeply embedded barriers. This book examines the limited nature of this 'contact' and explains why the P2P framework, which was ostensibly concerned with the promotion of peace, ultimately served to reinforce conflict and power relations. The book is based on the author's own experience of the solidarity activities during the First Intifada and her first-hand involvement as a coordinator of the P2P projects implemented during the 1990s. It provides a much-needed critical account of the internationally-sponsored peace process and develops new theoretical analyses of settler colonialism.

Author : Elizabeth Faier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135411237

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Organizations, Gender and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel by Elizabeth Faier Pdf

This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity.

Author : Adel Atieh
Publisher : UN
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060544809

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Peace in the Middle East by Adel Atieh Pdf

Examines the failure of the post-Oslo "people-to-people" (P2P) programmes organized by local NGOs with the aim of encouraging Israelis and Palestinians to a better understanding of one another and to begin a process of mutual reconciliation, and suggests ways the P2P programmes might be revised and renewed in the future.

Author : E. Marteu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230621749

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Civil Organizations and Protest Movements in Israel by E. Marteu Pdf

This volume brings together cutting edge research on Israeli citizens and organizations mobilized around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These pioneering perspectives provide a wealth of information on state-society relations in Israel, the boundaries of civil mobilization and on the prospects for Israeli democracy.

Author : Tilman Pradt
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783842879928

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Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in the 1990s: How NGOs Facilitated the Peace Process by Tilman Pradt Pdf

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become important actors in the globalised world. They run aid and relief programmes in the poorest countries, support international institutions (like the United Nations), or are watchdogs of them (for example watchdogs of the Bretton Woods institutions). In doing so, NGOs naturally work permanently with state-agencies and it is probably hard to find an NGO which is totally free of any governmental support (in financial, logistical or informative matters). Thus, there are strong NGO-government connections on a daily-work basis. NGOs run multiple attempts to contribute to the resolution of conflicts on all political levels. They bring together people on the grass-root level, they try to influence high officials through public pressure and they organise conferences and discussions with members and consultants of the concerned parties. The latter approach is analysed in this study. But how do NGOs influence the level of official international relations? To which degree can NGOs improve the relations of two conflicted parties, especially when the conflict is protracted and severe? The aim of this book is to define the preconditions of successful NGO mediation, to measure the NGO influence as an ?antecedent condition? for successful mediation, and to exhibit its limits. The underlying assumption is that conflict resolution is more likely if NGO mediation supports this attempt. This approach can be labelled as an ?assumption of constant effect? since the focus is on understanding the NGOs influence on international conflict resolution.

Author : Edy Kaufman,Walid Salem,Juliette Verhoeven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066791438

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Bridging the Divide by Edy Kaufman,Walid Salem,Juliette Verhoeven Pdf

?An incredibly courageous effort by Israeli and Palestinian peace scholars and practitioners to take a critical look at themselves and their activities, to expose and analyze their weaknesses, and to suggest ways to improve their efficacy and impact in the years ahead.??Naomi Chazan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem?Chronicling the valiant work of civil society in both camps in their quest toward reconciliation, this book helps us to fathom the uphill battle that the peace movement in Israel and Palestine has faced, and the hard work done in order to heal the wounds emanating from occupation and violence.??Hanna Siniora, Crossing BordersIn the midst of the continuing violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are many who remain committed to moving forward on the road to peace. The Palestinian and Israeli contributors to this book, recognizing the great potential of civil society and NGOs for the peacebuilding process, focus on realistic opportunities for conflict transformation. Drawing from the experiences of the post-Oslo period?seeking to learn from the mistakes that have been made?the authors concentrate on possibilities for just solutions that will enable both peoples to live in peace, safety, and prosperity. Their work is part of the Searching for Peace Series, a program of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention.Edy Kaufman is senior research associate at the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Walid Salem is director of the Jerusalem Office of Panorama, the Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development. Juliette Verhoeven is coordinator of the research unit at the European Centre for Conflict Prevention.Contents: Foreword?N. Chazan. Foreword?H. Siniora. Introduction?the Editors. Reflections. Palestinian-Israeli Peacebuilding: A Historical Perspective?E. Kaufman and W. Salem. Civil Society and NGOs Building Peace in Israel?T. Hermann. Civil Society and NGOs Building Peace in Palestine?M. Hassassian. Israeli-Palestinian Joint Activities: Problematic Endeavor, But Necessary Challenge?M. Dajani and G. Baskin. Israeli-Palestinian Second Track Diplomacy?M. Klein and R. Malki. Nonviolent Action in Israel and Palestine: A Growing Force?M. Abu-Nimer. Two Peoples, One Civil Society?S. Dichter and K. Abu-Asba. Looking Back, Looking Forward: Toward Transforming the Conflict?the Editors. Directory. 100 Organizations in Israel and Palestine.

Author : Nancy Gallagher
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617973765

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Quakers in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict by Nancy Gallagher Pdf

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker service organization, had just won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacemaking endeavors and its service to war refugees during the Second World War. On the basis of that experience, the United Nations invited the highly visible AFSC to provide humanitarian relief to Arab refugees in Gaza. The AFSC also sent volunteers to work in Israel, where they hoped to serve both Arabs and Jews. Its long-term goal was repatriation of the refugees and conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. As eyewitnesses to some of the major events of the conflict, the AFSC volunteers came to understand it better than most outsiders at the time. By examining these early efforts at peacemaking and assistance, historian Nancy Gallagher has uncovered essential insights for today’s peacemakers, human rights activists, and humanitarian NGOs.

Author : Michelle Pace,Somdeep Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351341523

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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank by Michelle Pace,Somdeep Sen Pdf

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians’ statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists, antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually, the understanding of the PA’s ‘theater of statecraft’ is inspired by Judith Butler’s conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it, from the vantage point of PA institutions, NGOs, international representative offices, and activists. Methodologically, the book adopts an ethnographic approach, by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state, International Relations and Politics, Palestine Studies, and the Middle East.

Author : Jeremie Bracka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030894351

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Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine by Jeremie Bracka Pdf

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine. Around the globe, diverse societies have pursued truth-telling, restorative justice and reconciliation to end conflict -- yet the language of transitional justice has been all but absent in Israel/Palestine. This volume squarely addresses how transitional justice could contribute to conflict transformation and accountability, incorporating the questions of collective justice, memory, and human rights. It covers the most important historical and legal issues facing Israel/Palestine with a focus on civil societies in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Latin America. Ultimately, the book proposes an unofficial Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Empathy Commission (IPTEC) to address gross human rights abuses committed by both nations. Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine will be of interest to researchers, NGOs, and policy makers working in transitional justice and societies with ongoing conflict.

Author : Benjamin Gidron,Stanley N. Katz,Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198029106

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Mobilizing for Peace by Benjamin Gidron,Stanley N. Katz,Yeheskel Hasenfeld Pdf

Mobilizing for Peace brings together the work of international experts to provide an in-depth study of thirty-three peace/conflict organizations in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. The contributors show how the sociopolitical and cultural context of the conflict in each region has shaped the type of resolution organizations that have emerged and their conception of the conflict and its resolution. By promoting more humane images of the contestants and by offering alternative peaceful approaches to resolve the conflict, the organizations have successfully galvanized previously weak or non-existent pro-peace political forces to become important players in the political struggle for peace.

Author : Ilham Shahbari
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781664112001

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The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel: Towards the Internationalisation of National Aspirations by Ilham Shahbari Pdf

The relations between the Israeli state and its Arab citizens have been distorted by the perception that national security concerns require the full rights of citizenship to be restricted for members of the Arab community. However, the national security of the state can also be affected by a poor reputation in the international community, which plays a vital role in sustaining the existence of the state. This created a space for Arab intelligentsia to use internationalisation as a means to promote their cause. This study is designed to explore and analyse the internationalisation process and its impact regarding the Arab community in Israel. It is a beneficial source to academics, experts, policymakers, journalists and other experts and interested members of the public.

Author : Benoit Challand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134020331

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Palestinian Civil Society by Benoit Challand Pdf

Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional perspectives, the book sheds light on the involvement of donors in Palestine, and the effect that aid has had on Palestinian civil society at a social, political and ideological level. Drawing on Arabic texts, political theory and a detailed survey of donors and local organizations, this book challenges culturalist views that there cannot be a ‘vibrant civil society’ in the Arab world and examines the issues of depoliticization of civil society, the rise of the Islamist sector, and the gradual defeat of the left in the Occupied Territories. The author looks at how the interaction between donors and NGOs is not only centred on a western model of civil society, but also evolves around institutional mechanisms and disciplinary discourses, affecting the ability of local NGOs to adapt to the institutional requirements set by international donors. Accessible to non-specialists, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, Middle Eastern studies and development studies.