Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada Activism and Advocacy

by Hallward, Maia Carter Carter; Norman, Julie M.

• ISBN13: 9780230116757
• ISBN10: 0230116752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edited volume explores a range of approaches to nonviolent or popular resistance in the Second Intifada. Written by scholar-activists with diverse experiences in Israel-Palestine, the chapters in the volume provide the reader with an overview of how nonviolent resistance is conceived and practiced in a variety of settings within the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel, and internationally. The selections explore the themes of power, tactics, and the interactions between local and international activists.

Author Biography

Maia Carter Hallward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada (2011) and has published in a number of academic journals, including Journal of Peace Research and Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. Hallward has a PhD in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, with concentrations in Critical Geopolitics and International Peace and Conflict Resolution and a regional focus on the Middle East.

 

Julie M. Norman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance (2010) and also writes on media activism and international law in Israel-Palestine. Norman is a coordinator and media trainer with Voices Beyond Walls, a participatory media project in the West Bank, and has worked on several documentary films in the region. Julie has a PhD in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, with concentrations in Human Rights and International Peace and Conflict Resolution and a regional focus on the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Introduction:  Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada--Julie M. Norman * Civic Education in Post-Oslo Palestine: Discursive Domestication--Ava Leone * Development as Peacebuilding and Resistance: Alternative Narratives of Nonviolence in Palestine-Israel--Timothy Seidel * Partners for Peace: Cooperative Popular Resistance and Peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict--Robert R. Sauders * Understandings of Nonviolence and Violence: Joint Palestinian and International Nonviolent Resistance--Sarah Scruggs * Religious Leaders in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Violent Incitement to Nonviolent Resistance--Mohammed Abu-Nimer * International Law and the Case of Operation Cast Lead: “Lawfare” and the Struggle for Justice--Maia Carter Hallward * The Global Campaign for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel--Hazem Jamjoum * The Free Gaza Movement--From an interview with Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro * Conclusion:  Prospects for Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine-Israel--Maia Carter Hallward and Julie M. Norman