Struggling for a just peace : Israeli and Palestinian activism in the second Intifada / Maia Carter Hallward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallward, Maia Carter, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005.

Nonviolence--Palestine.

Nonviolence.

Peace movements--Palestine.

Peace movements.

Peace-building--Palestine.

Peace-building.

Nonviolence--Israel.

Peace movements--Israel.

Israel.

Peace-building--Israel.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Peace.

Physical Description:

xi, 286 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]

Summary:

Western media coverage of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict frequently focuses on violence and failed attempts at peace. Often unseen and underreported, a surprising number of small, grassroots organizations have been steadily working to promote nonviolent approaches to resolving the tension in this region.

In 2004-2005, Maia Hallward spent most of a year living among, interviewing, and observing seven such groups from both sides of the conflict. She returned three years later. Her analysis of the groups' tactics, activities, and progress in working toward a just and lasting peace makes fascinating reading. These mini-case studies, combined with broader contextual examination, reveal the obstacles faced by both Israelis and Palestinians and provide unexpected insights into what really happens on a day-to-day basis within these groups.

By raising Western awareness of these groups' existence, Hallward challenges the official diplomatic presumption that peace is about working out lines on a map. Instead, she relocates the question into social, cultural, political, and geographic contexts that affect people's lives. She also argues that it is in the incremental but often lasting successes of these groups that true hope for a solution to the conflict may be found. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Identity and conflict

1. Examining the boundaries of peace

2. Historical overview of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

3. Interrogating peace and nonviolence in the Israeli-Palestinian context

4. Peacebuilding as process: groups studied and their approaches to change

5. Identity in action: peacebuilding as category formation

6. We've lost this round?: fragmentation and the peace process in 2008

7. Mechanisms of reconfiguration: challenging policies of separation 8. Operating with distinction: mobilizing boundaries of difference

9. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813036526

0813036526

OCLC:

666240006