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Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Darweish, Marwan.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (169 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
Summary:
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book offers a compelling look at how unarmed civilian protection (UCP) practitioners work to enhance the level of security experienced by local Palestinians, supporting community-based resistance to rocketing levels of dispossession and ethnic-cleansing in the occupied West Bank.
Contents:
Front Cover
Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
One Unarmed Civilian Protection in the South Hebron Hills: The Changing Research Environment, 2022-​25
A note on field research in the OPT
Conclusion
Two Contemporary Palestinian Unarmed Resistance to Occupation
The First Intifada
The Oslo peace process and the fragmentation of the Palestinian territories
The Second Intifada
The struggle against the Segregation Wall/​Barrier
Palestinian unarmed resistance post-​2014
July 2017: Struggle over access to the Al-​Aqsa Mosque complex
The Sheikh Jarrah struggle, East Jerusalem
Gaza -​ March of Return 2018-​19
The challenges facing popular resistance in the OPT
The growing significance of international networks of solidarity
Three Unarmed Civilian Protection under Occupation
Four main categories of UCP literature
Introductory overviews
Case study material
Attempts to draw out lessons on best practice in UCP
UCP and non-​partisanship
Inter-​organizational coordination among UCP agencies and activists
Metatheoretical literature
Social distance and the 'great chain of nonviolence'
Significance of this study
Four Mapping the Conflict in the South Hebron Hills
Oslo Interim Peace Agreement -​ the fragmentation of the West Bank
Double marginality of Palestinians within Area C
Ideologically motivated violence
Ethnic cleansing in Area C: the case of the Jordan Valley
South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta)
Firing Zone 918
Popular resistance in the South Hebron Hills
Culture of resistance
Five Accompaniers: Who They Are and What They Do
Commonalities
Palestinian activists
Israeli solidarity activists: Ta'ayush
'Resident Israeli accompaniers'.
Internationals -​ accompaniment as a form of solidarity
EAPPI
Operation Dove
CJNV
ISM
Six Challenges Faced by Accompaniers, 2022-​23
Mixed motives of accompaniers
To step forward or step back?
Problems of coordination
Trust
Cultural sensitivity and interpreting the Palestinian 'yes'
Neutrality and impartiality
Managing emotions during accompaniment
Seven Sumud and Community-​Based Protection
Sumud -​ to exist is to resist
Community resilience and social solidarity
Family and kinship ties
Attachment to the land
Faza'a
Shame and honour
Lessons of history
The centrality of women in sustaining community resilience and resistance
Tenacity and bloody-​mindedness
Local leadership
Eight Unarmed Civilian Protection in a War Zone
A second Nakba?
Initial Palestinian response in Masafer Yatta -​ confusion and fear
The withdrawal of unarmed civilian protection (UCP) volunteers
Facing the challenge: the return of Israeli and international accompaniers
Adapting to a new script -​ UCP practice in Masafer Yatta after 7 October 2023
Settlers and soldiers no longer distinguishable
Protection without provocation?
The call for 24/​7 protection
Increase in volunteers
Greater coordination
Challenging settler impunity -​ the international dimension
Nine Concluding Observations
Frontier genocide in Masafer Yatta
Any grounds for hope?
A way forward? The 'big If'
Lessons from the past -​ the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH)
What can we learn from the TIPH experience?
Enhancing the protective presence of unarmed peace keepers
Internationalization from below?
Final word
Notes
one Unarmed Civilian Protection in the South Hebron Hills: The Changing Research Environment, 2022-​25.
two Contemporary Palestinian Unarmed Resistance to Occupation
three Unarmed Civilian Protection under Occupation
four Mapping the Conflict in the South Hebron Hills
five Accompaniers: Who They Are and What They Do
six Challenges Faced by Accompaniers, 2022-​23
seven Sumud and Community-​Based Protection
eight Unarmed Civilian Protection in a War Zone
nine Concluding Observations
References
Index.
Notes:
This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9781529257281
OCLC:
1581076574

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