Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian ActivismAmerican Univ in Cairo Press, 2007 - 196 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Quaker Peacemaking in Theory and Practice | 7 |
Palestine War | 29 |
Catastrophe in Gaza | 61 |
Establishment of a Public Health Service | 79 |
Establishment of a School System | 85 |
Relief versus Repatriation | 99 |
The AFSC in Israel | 119 |
Nasser Ben Gurion and the Quakers | 145 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Glossary | 165 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO ... <span dir=ltr>Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
Quakers in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO ... <span dir=ltr>Nancy Gallagher</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
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