Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 196 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
977416105X
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9789774161056
Content:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker service organization, had just won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacemaking endeavors and its service to war refugees during the Second World War. On the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index
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CONTENTS; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Quaker Peacemaking in Theory and Practice; Early Quaker Peacemaking Efforts; Establishment of the American Friends Service Committee; The AFSC in the Second World War ; Quakers and the United Nations ; Quaker Missionaries in Palestine ; The 1948 Palestine War; A Petition for Peace in Jerusalem ; UN Meditation in the War for Palestine ; A Quaker Municipal Commissioner for Jerusalem ; Quakers and the Palestinian Refugees ; A UN Invitation to the AFSC ; Catastrophe in Gaza ; The First Refugee Camps
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The AFSC's Early Days in Cairo and Gaza Establishment of A Public Health Service ; Establishment of a School System; Conflicts, Misunderstandings, and Adaptations; Relief versus Repatriation; Clarence Pickett's Views on Repatriation ; AFSC Opposition to Resettlemeny Plans ; Transition from AFSC to UNRWA ; Assessments of the Gaza Project ; The AFSC in Israel; The AFSC in Israel; Expulsion of Palestinians from Faluja and Iraq al-Manshiya; Relations between the AFSC and Israeli Officials; The Tur'an Agricultural Center ; Nasser, Ben Gurion, and the Quakers
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Elmore Jackson's Unofficial Diplomacy The Suez War of 1956; Quaker Reassessments Post-Suez; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Quakers in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict : The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism
Language:
English
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