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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458815303321

Autore

Gallagher Nancy Elizabeth <1942->

Titolo

Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [[electronic resource] ] : the dilemmas of NGO humanitarian activism / / Nancy Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2007

ISBN

1-61797-017-4

1-61797-376-9

1-936190-26-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

261.8328

Soggetti

Church work with refugees

Peace - Religious aspects

Refugees, Palestinian Arab - Services for

Society of Friends - History

Electronic books.

Palestine History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker service organization, had just won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacemaking endeavors and its service to war refugees during the Second World War. On the