What is it about?
The Palestinian non-governmental organisations' peace and development intervention policies in the Gaza Strip. The paper considers a number of social, economic and political factors, circumstances and changes that have influenced the Palestinian NGOs in responding to the different circumstances in the Gaza Strip, including the first and the second Intifadas as well as Gaza's breakaway from the West Bank.
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Why is it important?
It is important because the NGOs operate to deliver actions in the field of human rights, community development, conflict resolution, sport, women empowerment or democracy. They are considered crucial stakeholders in mobilising and empowering the society by driving the politics and change process. The paper examines the established interests, reaction and responses of those organizations and the needs of society due to subsequent crisis in the region. It includes how these organizations shape and contribute to establish an important power structure.
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Dr Ibrahim Natil is a fellow at Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, Dublin City University. He authored and published several articles and book chapters on a wide range of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, human security, NGOs, revolutionary movements, political violence, and the Middle East in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Routledge, Pluto, Palgrave, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, Inter-Disciplinary Press and Springer. He is the book author: Hamas Transformation Opportunities and Challenges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. He presented over 25 papers at conferences during the last four years throughout Europe. He also writes to Independent Australia. In addition to his scholarly work, he is being nominated for Tällberg Foundation Global Leadership Prize 2016. He is an international development consultant and worked for many international NGOs and the founder of the Society Voice Foundation in Palestine (2002). He also launched and managed various range of human rights, women’s empowerment and peacebuilding programmes and projects since 1997.
Dr Ibrahim Natil
Dublin City University
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This page is a summary of: A Shifting Political Landscape: NGOs' Civic Activism and Response in the Gaza Strip, 1967–2014, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, December 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1080/15423166.2014.983369.
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