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Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : the dilemmas of NGO humanitarian activism / Nancy Gallagher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church work with refugees.
- Peace--Religious aspects.
- Peace.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Services for.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
- Society of Friends--History.
- Society of Friends.
- Palestine--History.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781617970177
- 1617970174
- 9781617973765
- 1617973769
- 9781936190263
- 1936190265
- OCLC:
- 948378406
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