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Prefiguring Peace
Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Partnerships
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2012
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Prefiguring Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Partnerships, a longitudinal study of more than ten years (1993–2008), focuses on the major peacebuilding initiatives with an educational encounter-based approach in Israel and Palestine. It examines how non-governmental peacebuilding initiatives adapt to radically changing environments, the challenges they face, and why some are able to adapt and survive while others do not. Michelle I. Gawerc explores two aspects of adaptation—the ability to maintain resources and legitimacy with critical constituencies outside the organization, and the ability to continue to function effectively as an organization.
Her study shows that when the environment became more tumultuous and hostile, the effectiveness and even survival of these organizations depended to a significant degree on their ability to manage the power asymmetry between the two sides and work as equally as possible. Indeed, it became critical for building and maintaining trust and respect in the partnership; for preserving legitimacy with one’s partner; for maintaining staff and active participant commitment; for managing internal conflict; and even for managing resources. Organizations that failed to deal effectively with matters of equality, and the needs and desires of both sides, ended up struggling to maintain commitment or were doused in conflict that could have been tempered if they strived for more equality.
Encompassing various fields, this research contributes to the broad fields of peace and conflict resolution, social movements, and organizational studies. It offers critical insight into how organizations adapt to sudden and drastic changes: what is problematic, what is possible, and what allows some groups to survive while others do not. In addition, it has great import for building sustainable coalitions across inequality, asymmetry, and difference.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6610-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6612-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Ch01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Ch02. Twelve Organizations No access Pages 19 - 32
Ch03. Political and Social Context No access Pages 33 - 50
Ch04. The Challenge of Asymmetry No access Pages 51 - 68
Ch05. A Dance of Legitimacy No access Pages 69 - 96
Ch06. Maintaining and Managing Resources No access Pages 97 - 124
Ch07. Managing Internal Conflict No access Pages 125 - 154
Ch08. Maintaining Commitment No access Pages 155 - 176
Ch09. Commitment, Community, and Collective Identity No access Pages 177 - 202
Ch10. Conclusion No access Pages 203 - 224
Afterword No access Pages 225 - 238
Appendix A. Organizational Updates No access Pages 239 - 254
