Israeli and Palestinian Collective Narratives in Conflict PDF Download

Author: Adi Mana
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527559629
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Examining the “social laboratory” of the Israeli and Palestinian societies to better understand social conflicts and the construction of diverse and conflicting collective narratives, this book gives readers a window into Professor Shifra Sagy’s unique approach to intergroup conflicts and peace education. With a focus on both theory and practice, it describes the model of perceptions of collective narratives that she developed with her colleagues. The contributions here offer insight into the intergroup conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, Palestinian Muslims and Christians, Jewish ‘National Religious’ and people of ultra-Orthodox faith, and Palestinians living in Israel and those living in the West Bank. Perceptions of collective narratives help crystallize social identity, a sense of community and national coherence, and a culture of conflict. Often this creates obstacles to peace and conflict resolution. This book instead looks at how we can use these constructions to promote reconciliation.

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253218578
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Why does Hamas refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the state of Israel? What makes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so intractable? Reflecting both Israeli and Palestinian points of view, this volume addresses the two powerful, bitterly contested, competing historical narratives that underpin the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Author: Avraham Sela
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War as represented in literature, historical museums, art, visual media, and landscape, as well as in competing official and societal narratives. They are examined especially against the backdrop of the Oslo process, which brought into relief tensions within and between both sides of the national divide concerning identity and legitimacy, justice, and righteousness of "self" and "other."

Author: Shai Fuxman
Publisher:
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Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Shai Fuxman
Publisher:
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Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Israel's collective narrative is transmitted to adolescents, and in turn how they actively engage with it to develop their own personal narratives of the conflict's past, present, and future. In order to examine this process, a mixed-methods study was conducted with Israeli high school students from across the country consisting of survey data and a series of in-depth interviews. Through this investigation several key findings emerged. First, the study found a range of personal narratives constructed by participants, spanning from absolute adherence to Israel's collective narrative to narratives that weave together Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. Second, the study provides evidence that these narratives are shaped by conversations and experiences they share with those closest to them, particularly their parents and other family members. Third, students' narratives become a prism through which they process and assess day-to-day information. Lastly, these personal narratives also inform students' political views about the conflict, in particular their opinions about how the conflict should be resolved. These findings provide a deeper understanding of how young people engage with their social and political surroundings to make meaning of intractable conflicts. Furthermore, they provide important lessons for the field of peace education by suggesting how educational interventions can be used to help youth develop personal narratives of the conflict that are supportive of reconciliation between the two sides.

Author: Sāmī ʻAbd al-Razzāq ʻAdwān
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to "disarm" the teaching of the history of the Middle East in Israeli and Palestinian classrooms. The result is a riveting "dual narrative" of Israeli and Palestinian history. Side by Side comprises the history of two peoples, in separate narratives set literally side-by-side, so that readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. The unique and fascinating presentation has been translated into English and is now available to American audiences for the first time. An eye-opening--and inspiring--new approach to thinking about one of the world's most deeply entrenched conflicts, Side by Side is a breakthrough book that will spark a new public discussion about the bridge to peace in the Middle East.

Author: Keren Sharvit
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319248413
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Due to its intensity and extensive effects both locally and globally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has drawn the attention of scholars from numerous disciplines, who attempt to explain the causes of the conflict and the reasons for the difficulties in resolving it. Among these one can find historians, geographers, political scientists, sociologists and others. This volume explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a social psychology perspective. At the core of the book is a theory of intractable conflicts, as developed by Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University, applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Opening with an introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict situation and a few chapters on the theoretical backgrounds of the creation of a societal ethos of conflict, the volume then moves to an analysis of the psycho-social underpinnings of the conflict, while concluding with a discussion of the possibility of long-standing peace in the region. Among the topics included in the coverage are: · Identity formation during conflict · The Israeli and Palestinian ethos of conflict · The important role of Palestinian and Israeli education · An analysis of the leadership in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process · The challenges and potential towards a road to peace in the region All contributors to the volume are pre-eminent scholars of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and many of them have felt the influence of Bar-Tal’s formulations in their own work. A rich resource for those who are followers of Dr. Bar-Tal's work, for those who study intractable conflicts in all its forms, and for those who have a particular interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, A Social Psychology Perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian Case offers a detailed exploration of the psychological underpinnings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the barriers to and opportunities of the peace process.

Author: Grace Wermenbol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108890210
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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The Holocaust and the Nakba are foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies and form key parts of each respective collective identity. This book offers a parallel analysis of the transmission of these foundational pasts in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies by exploring how the Holocaust and the Nakba have been narrated since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. The work exposes the existence and perpetuation of ethnocentric victimhood narratives that serve as the theoretical foundations for an ensuing minimization – or even denial – of the other's past. Three established realms of societal memory transmission provide the analytical framework for this study: official state education, commemorative acts, and mass mediation. Through this analysis, the work demonstrates the interrelated nature of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the contextualization of the primary historical events, while also highlighting the universal malleability of mnemonic practices.

Author: Marda Dunsky
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268200351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising their own constructive agency. In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary Palestinian society in the venues envisioned for a future Palestinian state. Dunsky has interviewed women and men from cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps who are farmers, scientists, writers, cultural innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs. Using their own words, she illuminates their resourcefulness in navigating agriculture, education, and cultural pursuits in the West Bank; persisting in Jerusalem as a sizable minority in the city; and confronting the challenges and uncertainties of life in the Gaza Strip. Based on her in-depth personal interviews, the narratives weave in quantitative data and historical background from a range of primary and secondary sources that contextualize Palestinian life under occupation. More than a collection of individual stories, Stories from Palestine presents a broad, crosscut view of the tremendous human potential of this particular society. Narratives that emphasize the human dignity of Palestinians pushing forward under extraordinary circumstances include those of an entrepreneur who markets the yields of Palestinian farmers determined to continue cultivating their land, even as the landscape is shrinking; a professor and medical doctor who aims to improve health in local Palestinian communities; and an award-winning primary school teacher who provides her pupils a safe and creative learning environment. In an era of conflict and divisiveness, Palestinian resilience is relatable to people around the world who seek to express themselves, to achieve, to excel, and to be free. Stories from Palestine creates a new space from which to consider Palestinians and peace.

Author: Sam Hines
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346331652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Essay from the year 2019 in the subject History - World History - Basics, grade: 69, Oxford University, language: English, abstract: This essay will investigate whether a memory can predate a nation’s formation and whether they can, in fact, be ‘long’ by conducting a study from two angles - the first exploring persisting memories from before 1948 and the second examining the memories of that year and beyond. By focusing mainly on Israeli and Palestinian society but also touching on South African, it will conclude that young societies can have long memories: these communities all drew upon their past experiences (or what they believed to be their past experiences), whether they be during times of colonial occupation or other traumatic events across the globe, to create a prosthetic, collective memory to augment a quasi-ubiquitous nationalistic sentiment and enhance zealous beliefs. Ultimately, as Megill notes, in moments of crisis, people often hark back to the past with greater intensity, valorising memory and weaving embellished narratives into the political and cultural discourse. Societies are trapped in their own past, characterised by their collective ideologies, understanding and memories. Although a society may be ‘young’ in terms of its conception date, citizens inherit pre-state narratives that heavily influence and shape contemporary actions and ideas. These ‘long’ memories tend to be ‘collective’, a narrative in which individual memories agglomerate in an intersubjective process, being exchanged, appropriated and forgotten. During this process, the frontiers between what one has actually ‘experienced’ and what one believes they have experienced - through hearing or reading for example - often become blurred, leading to the creation of a prosthetic memory.