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Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- 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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