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This book explores the challenges of transforming the violent
conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians into just
peace. There are many challenges involved in the bottom-up
transformation of the violent structures that sustain the State of
Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. This book examines
these structures as it assesses the actors and strategies that are
contributing to the termination of cycles of violence and
oppression. Consisting of contributions from both peace
practitioners and academics who have conducted research within
Israel and the occupied territory, the volume utilises a
multidisciplinary perspective to examine promising strategies for
conflict transformation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territory. Moreover, it spells out the types of nonviolent strategy
that are being used to expose and undermine occupation structures,
and surveys the manner in which a variety of key actors are working
towards the transformation of the ongoing conflict. As a whole, the
volume presents a proposal for the transformation of the conflict
between Palestinians and the State of Israel that embraces the
constructive potential of conflict, engages with power asymmetry,
and pushes for justice and accountability. This book will be of
much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies,
Middle Eastern studies, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and IR in
general.
This book explores the challenges of transforming the violent
conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians into just
peace. There are many challenges involved in the bottom-up
transformation of the violent structures that sustain the State of
Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. This book examines
these structures as it assesses the actors and strategies that are
contributing to the termination of cycles of violence and
oppression. Consisting of contributions from both peace
practitioners and academics who have conducted research within
Israel and the occupied territory, the volume utilises a
multidisciplinary perspective to examine promising strategies for
conflict transformation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territory. Moreover, it spells out the types of nonviolent strategy
that are being used to expose and undermine occupation structures,
and surveys the manner in which a variety of key actors are working
towards the transformation of the ongoing conflict. As a whole, the
volume presents a proposal for the transformation of the conflict
between Palestinians and the State of Israel that embraces the
constructive potential of conflict, engages with power asymmetry,
and pushes for justice and accountability. This book will be of
much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies,
Middle Eastern studies, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and IR in
general.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly
utilized in the rebuilding of war-torn countries. NGOs venturing
into the chaotic devastation of countries like Afghanistan are
required to navigate numerous challenges. Thiessen's book is a
grounded-theory qualitative study of interview narratives of NGO
officials involved in educational project work in Afghanistan as
well as other conflict-affected contexts. The key findings reveal
the constructive as well as potentially destructive role NGO
project work can play in a conflict-affected zone. NGO officials
also described the transformational potential of their educational
project work and recognized their work as but one track in a
multi-track intervention into conflict-affected countries. Further,
NGO officials suggested a need for increased project time frames in
order to increase the likelihood of success in their development
and peacebuilding ventures. Thiessen's book will be of special
interest to NGO leaders, community development workers, donor
agency officials, as well as government officials responsible for
establishing policy regarding interventions into war-affected
societies.
This captivating book presents innovative answers to the question:
why storytelling? Each chapter represents leading edge narrative
research designs from Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and
Justice in central Canada, one of the world's leading academic
programs for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), and a major
contributor to PACS scholarship. The authors are candid and offer
inspiration for other scholars seeking groundbreaking ideas for
their own research design while offering profound expansions to the
current PACS literature. The scholarship reflects a diversity of
ideas, passions, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas.
Each chapter explores different and critical issues in the field of
PACS through various forms of storytelling, while providing recent
original research designs for the future development of the field
and the education of its practitioners and academics. This volume,
co-edited by three of the early graduates of the program, presents
and explores a number of these issues across the broad spectrum of
Peace and Conflict Studies. Contributors to the book are recognized
scholars and practitioners in their respective fields. The book has
a wide audience, targeting those particularly interested in
tackling and understanding old conflicts in new ways, and for those
seeking to learn at the growing edges of PACS, at the
undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels.
This book serves as an important link between conflict resolution
practice and education by providing research from the unique
perspective and approach of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace
and Justice, one of the world's leading academic programs for PACS
research: storytelling, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation.
Each chapter presents original research in critical issues in the
field of PACS, and provides recent research for the future
development of the field and the education of its practitioners and
academics. The book has a wide audience targeting students at the
undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. It also extends
to those working in and leading community conflict resolution
efforts as well as humanitarian aid workers. Exploring the issues
facing the field provides a means by which academics, students, and
practitioners can develop theory, practice, pedagogy, and
methodology to confront the complexity of contemporary conflicts
while expanding opportunities for future research and practice.
Contributors to the book are recognized scholars and practitioners
in their respective fields. The authors' take a holistic approach
to the study, analysis, and resolution of conflict at the personal,
interpersonal, societal and cultural levels. The book is a
retrospective of the Mauro Centre and through its content, explores
the roots of a major contributor to PACS scholarship. The
scholarship represents those who come to the PACS field with a
diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic
areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to
apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace.
This book reflects the unique model and approach of the Arthur V.
Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at the University of Manitoba in
central Canada: conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and
storytelling. Based in the doctoral theses and in celebration of
the first decade of Canada's only doctoral program in PACS, this
volume, co-edited by three of the graduates of the program and
written by colleagues, presents and explores a number of these
issues while presenting new and leading research across the broad
spectrum of Peace and Conflict Studies.
The international community has followed up its 2001 invasion of
Afghanistan with a complex, multi-faceted peacebuilding project.
However, informed observers believe that this Western-led mission
in Afghanistan has failed to address the inherent peacebuilding
needs of Afghanistan and has hindered the formation of a locally
experienced sustainable peace. In response, emerging peacebuilding
theories and rhetoric have pointed to an urgent need for revised
peacebuilding paradigms and strategies that hold local, Afghan
ownership of peacebuilding activities as a central concern. This
book responds to this need for revised peacebuilding paradigms and:
(1) introduces the topic of local ownership of peacebuilding in
Afghanistan; (2) surveys current shifts in peacebuilding theory and
practice that are only starting to be realized on the ground; (3)
sets the context for a discussion of local ownership of
peacebuilding; (4) reports on the perceptions of foreign and Afghan
peacebuilding leaders working in Afghanistan in regards to the
journey towards local ownership of peacebuilding; and (5) suggests
the creation of a locally designed and led conflict transformation
system that might help restructure local-foreign relations and
advance the journey towards Afghan ownership of peacebuilding.
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