Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief [electronic resource] /
Romirowsky, A.author.
Joffe, A.author.
This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. Using archival data, oral histories, and biographical accounts, it provides a detailed look at internal decision-making in an early non-governmental organization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figurers; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Palestine Arab Problem and the International Community; 1. Studying the Palestine Arab Refugee Problem; Early Scholarship on the Refugee Crisis; 1970s and 1980s; The "New Historians"; Scholarship-Advocacy; Studying the AFSC and Relief Organizations; 2. The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee: Origins of the Quakers and Quaker Ideology; Friends and the AFSC from the Civil War to World War I; Quakers and the Theology and Politics of American Protestant Missions in the Middle East
World War II and European Refugee Relief 1945-1948THE AFSC and the Politics of Pacifism; 3. The AFSC in the Middle East: The Official Origins of AFSC Involvement in the Middle East; Religious Diplomacy and the Origins of AFSC Involvement in the Middle East; AFSC and Palestine Arab Refugee Relief, Summer 1948; Institutionalizing Palestine Arab Relief; How Many Refugees?; 4. AFSC in the Field: December 1948-December 1949; Early Operations and Growing Concerns; Pickett Goes to the Middle East and Changing Perceptions in Early 1949; 5. AFSC and the Politics of Regional Development
AFSC, UNRPR, and Local Economies, Spring and Summer 19496. AFSC, the Economic Survey Mission, and Regional Development; Internal Tensions and International Solutions, Fall 1949; 7. The AFSC and UNRWA: The End of UNRPR; The Last Gasp of American Voluntary Organizations; AFSC as an UNRWA Contractor; 8. International Security and the Question of Reintegration; AFSC Retrospectives on the UNRPR and UNRWA; AFSC and the Middle East after 1953; 9. Assessing the AFSC as an Early NGO; AFSC, NGOs, UNRWA, and Moral Hazard; AFSC, UNRWA, and the Question of Anti-Semitism; 10. Conclusions; Notes
BibliographyIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. Using archival data, oral histories, and biographical accounts, it provides a detailed look at internal decision-making in an early non-governmental organization.
American Friends Service Committee.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
International organization.
Middle East-Politics and government.
Religion and sociology.
International relations.
Political communication.
Political science.
International Organization.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Social Aspects of Religion.
International Relations.
Political Communication.
Political Science.