Prefiguring peace
Subtitle: Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding partnerships
By: Michelle I. Gawerc
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780739166109; 9780739166123
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies; Peace; Conflict management; Arab-Israeli conflict; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Description: "This work presents a longitudinal study, of greater than 10 years, of all the major peace building initiatives with an educational encounter-based approach in Israel and Palestine, during times of relative peace and times of acute violence (1993-2008). Involving various fields, this research contributes to the broad fields of peace and conflict resolution, social movements, and organizational studies"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword by William A. Gamson; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Chapter 1: Introduction; title: Chapter 2: Twelve Organizations; title: Chapter 3: Political and Social Context: Three Environments; title: Chapter 4: The Challenge of Asymmetry; title: Chapter 5: A Dance of Legitimacy; title: Chapter 6: Maintaining and Distributing Resources; title: Chapter 7: Managing Internal Conflict; title: Chapter 8: Maintaining Commitment: Organizational Considerations; title: Chapter 9: Commitment, Community, and Collective Identity; title: Chapter 10: Conclusion; title: Afterword; title: Appendix A: Organizational Updates; title: Appendix B: Israeli Peace NGO Forum Statement on the Gaza War and Palestinian Peace NGO Statement on the Gaza War.