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Religion, politics, and the origins of Palestine refugee relief

Title: Religion, politics, and the origins of Palestine refugee relief / Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe.
Author: Romirowsky, Asaf
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Joffe, Alexander H.

Description

vi, 254 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. It situates the operation within the context of the AFSC's attempts to exercise new influence on the separate issues of pacifism and disarmament at a time marked by US efforts to construct a Cold War security regime in the Middle East and British efforts to retain influence and bases in Arab countries. Using archival data, oral histories, diplomatic documents, and biographical and autobiographical accounts, the authors provide a detailed look at internal decision-making in an early non-governmental organization where beliefs regarding the requirement to provide refugees with skills for self-reliance clashed with intractable political and cultural realities and the realization that only full repatriation or resettlement elsewhere would solve the problem (a lesson that UNRWA and the international community learned only decades later). Faced with impossible solutions, the Quakers withdrew. The story of AFSC involvement in Gaza shows that refugee relief is always political and that humanitarianism can prolong the problems it seeks to solve"--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-247) and index.

Contents

Introduction : The Palestine Arab Refugee Problem and the International -- 1. Studying the Palestine Arab Refugee Problem -- 2. The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee -- 3. The AFSC in the Middle East -- 4. AFSC in the Field: December 1948-December 1949 -- 5. AFSC and The Politics of Regional Development -- 6. AFSC, the Economic Survey Mission, and Regional Development -- 7. The AFSC and UNRWA : The End of UNRPR -- 8. International Security and the Question of 'Reintegration' -- 9. Assessing the AFSC as an Early NGO -- 10. Conclusions.

Call Number

JFD 14-2142

ISBN

9781137378163 (hardback)
1137378166 (hardback)

LCCN

2013026220

OCLC

855581305

Author

Romirowsky, Asaf, author.

Title

Religion, politics, and the origins of Palestine refugee relief / Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-247) and index.

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Joffe, Alexander H., author.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-2142

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