Archiv für die Kategorie ‘Issue: 5’

Issue 5 | Focus – Promoting Peace: Peace Now as a Graphic Peace Movement, 1987-1993

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‚Peace Now,’ the leading Israeli peace organization, has mobilized the public to press governments to reach peace agreements, protest wars and oppression of Palestinians, obstruct settlements in the Occupied Territories and develop dial…

Issue 5 | Focus – A Christian Look at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. …

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In 1970, after a long genesis, the joint Israeli and Palestinian experience of the village of ‘Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam’ (‘oasis of peace’) began. Among the decisive figures for the start of this project, Father Brun…

Issue 5 | Focus – “Hello pacifist” War Resisters in Israel’s First Decade

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This paper discusses the history, organization, networks and political outlook of the state of Israel’s first conscientious objectors (COs) in the 1950s, and the consequences they confronted, individually and as a group. Despite i…

Issue 5 | Focus – Challenging National Narratives in Palestine/Israel: Interconnections between …

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Taking account of the original meaning of  ‘inextricability’ among Arabs and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis, the paper aims at exploring whether joint Palestinian and Israeli Jewish viewpoints should be considered as a feasi…

Issue 5 | Focus – Constructing Peace….but What Kind of Peace? Women’s Activism, Strategies …

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Israeli and Palestinian women played a vital role in the difficult process of achieving peace and restoring dialogue. Meeting and organizing away from the spotlight, women held discussions with each other and proposed ways to bring about reco…

Issue 5 | Focus – In God’s Name: Jewish Religious and Traditional Peace and Human Rights …

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The peace-building activities of several dozens peace and human rights activists from Israeli-Jewish religious and traditional milieus1 has not received enough attention either from the Israeli and international media or in the academia. Actu…

Issue 5 | Focus – Memory and Mobilization? Identity, Narrative and Nonviolent Resistance in the …

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To what extent did first Intifada memories and experiences influence nonviolent activism in the second Intifada? Specifically, how did prior individual or collective identities contribute to activists opting for nonviolent strategies in the p…

Issue 5 | Focus – Hope through Steadfastness: The Journey of ‘Holy Land Trust’

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Established in 1998, ‘Holy Land Trust’ (HLT) serves to empower the Palestinian community in Bethlehem to discover its strengths…

Issue 5 | Focus – Panels for Peace: Contributions of Israeli and Palestinian Comics to …

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Comics and graphic novels about the Arab-Israeli conflict constitute a small, but constantly expanding sub-genre. Most of them are statements for one of the two opposing sides and only very few comic book authors use their skills to contribut…

Issue 5 | Focus – Palestinians and Israelis Collaborate in Addressing the Historical Narratives …

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Since the summer of 2000, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going through rough times on both the political and military levels. This generally applies as well to societal collaboration between the parties. Despite this multi-le…