Struggling for a just peace
Subtitle: Israeli and Palestinian activism in the second Intifada
By: Maia Carter Hallward
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780813036526
Subjects: Nonviolence; Peace movements; Peace-building; Peace; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: Almost invisibly, numerous activists are presently engaged in ongoing, nonviolent efforts to build peace and bring about an end to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Beginning in 2004, after the mainstream peace movement collapsed, Maia Hallward spent most of a year observing the work of seven such groups on both sides of the conflict. She returned in 2008 to examine the progress they had made in working for a just and lasting peace. Although small, these grassroots organizations provide valuable lessons regarding how peacebuilding takes place in times of ongoing animosity and violence. By raising awareness of these groups' existence, Hallward provides a much richer investigation of available options for peacemaking in Israel, which is otherwise dominated by violence and armed strategies. Challenging the official diplomatic presumption that peace is about working out lines on a map, she relocates the question into social, cultural, political, and geographic contexts that affect people's daily lives. In the end, Struggling for a Just Peace offers a critical look at the realities on the ground, focusing on what has been successful for groups engaged in working for peace in times of conflict and how they have adapted to changing circumstances.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Identity and conflict; title: 1. Examining the boundaries of peace; title: 2. Historical overview of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; title: 3. Interrogating peace and nonviolence in the Israeli-Palestinian context; title: 4. Peacebuilding as process: groups studied and their approaches to change; title: 5. Identity in action: peacebuilding as category formation; title: 6. We've lost this round?: fragmentation and the peace process in  2008; title: 7. Mechanisms of reconfiguration: challenging policies of separation  8. Operating with distinction: mobilizing boundaries of difference; title: 9. Conclusion.