1st Edition

Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians The Dynamics of Peace and Justice under Occupation

Edited By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Chuck Thiessen, Mufid Qassoum Copyright 2017
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the challenges of transforming the violent conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians into just peace. There are many challenges involved in the bottom-up transformation of the violent structures that sustain the State of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. This book examines these structures as it assesses the actors and strategies that are... Read more

 1. The Evolution of Conflict Transformation: Theory and Practice in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Chuck Thiessen





2. The Glocal Spatial Dynamics of the ‘Zionist/Israeli–Arab/Palestinian’ Conflict and its Glocal Transformation, Mufid Qassoum



Part I – Transformational strategies under occupation





3. Rights-Based Approaches to the Return of Palestinian Refugees, Maya al-Orzza and Manar Makhoul





4. Human Rights as a Tool for Conflict Transformation: The Cases of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and Local Unarmed Popular Resistance, Ana Sánchez and Patricia Sellick





5. A Critical and Historical Assessment of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in Palestine, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh





6. Struggling Against the Occupation: Nonviolent International Interventions for Conflict Transformation in Palestine, Diego Checa Hidalgo





7. A Means to Conflict Transformation: Social Capital as a Force for Palestinian Communities, Raffaella Y. Nanetti





8. Cyber-Conflict and Resistance in Israel and the Occupied Territory, Khalid Rabayah and Chas Morrison



Part II - Transformational actors





9. Consumer Resistance or Resisting Consumption?: The Case of Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Aurélie Bröckerhoff





10. Religion, Politics, and Conflict Transformation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Timothy Seidel





11. Occupied Experiences: Displays of Alternative Resistance in Works by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Artists, Eser Selen





12. The Transformative Potential of the Palestinian University Student Youth Movement, Ayman Yousef and Razan Abu Libdeh





13. Israeli Peace and Solidarity Organizations, Marwan Darweish





14. Humanitarian Organizations and International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Aleksandra Godziejewska





15. Internationally Sponsored Conflict Resolution Programming for Youth in the Gaza Strip, Ibrahim Natil



Conclusion





16. The Future of Conflict Transformation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Alpaslan Özerdem

Biography



Alpaslan Özerdem is Professor of Peacebuilding and Co-Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. He is the author/editor of eight books, including most recently International Peacebuilding: An Introduction (Routledge, 2015).



Chuck Thiessen is Research Fellow in Peacebuilding at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK.



Mufid Qassoum is Vice President for International Relations at the Arab American University of Jenin in Palestine.