Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : the dilemmas of NGO humanitarian activism / Nancy Gallagher.

By:

Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth, 1942-

Contributor(s):

Comité de Servicio de Amigos Americanos

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cairo [u.a.] ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2007.Description: x, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9789774161056
977416105X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

261.8/328

LOC classification:

BV 4466 G162q 2007

Contents:

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Quaker Peacemaking in Theory and Practice; The 1948 Palestine War; Catastrophe in Gaza; Relief versus Repatriation; The AFSC in Israel; Nasser, Ben Gurion, and the Quakers; Conclusion; Glossary.

Summary: As eyewitnesses to major events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AFSC volunteers came to understand it better than most outsiders at the time. By examining these early efforts at peacemaking and assistance, historian Nancy Gallagher has uncovered essential insights for today's peacemakers, human rights activists, and humanitarian NGOs.

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As eyewitnesses to major events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AFSC volunteers came to understand it better than most outsiders at the time. By examining these early efforts at peacemaking and assistance, historian Nancy Gallagher has uncovered essential insights for today's peacemakers, human rights activists, and humanitarian NGOs.

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