Today, while Palestinian CSOs explore ways to survive and face and confront the causes and impacts of the shrinking space at the practical, strategic, political and ethical levels, the time is ripe for the declaration of a Gaza Covenant/Charter/Manifesto to … Continue reading Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society
Broederlijk Delen, Oxfam Belgium, Solidagro, SolSoc and Viva Salud present the study “Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society: 2017-2022 and the War on Gaza”, by Dr. Jeremy Wildeman, Dr. Alaa Tartir and Ms. Salma Shaheen. This study, supported by Belgian … Continue reading Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society: 2017-2022 and the War on Gaza
What does the future hold for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza? Al-Shabaka is proud to release a groundbreaking analytical project, The Al-Shabaka Scenario Matrix, an interactive tool that invites readers to engage with five future political scenarios for the West Bank and Gaza, detailing each scenario’s impact on four distinct … Continue reading Scenario Matrix: Possibilities for the West Bank and Gaza
Although the Palestinian authorities followed a set of global standards and procedures to tackle the pandemic, they had to manoeuvre within severe constraints: weak health infrastructure, a fragile financial situation for the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the political ramifications of … Continue reading Palestine and COVID-19: Global Standards, Local Constraints
La Palestina andrà meglio nel 2016? C’è una qualche ragione di ottimismo e di speranza tra questi cupi avvenimenti e quanto sta accadendo attualmente? Secondo l’analista Alaa Tartir sì, nonostante tutto. Published at Near East News Agency, 25 February 2016. Click … Continue reading Palestina 2016: Uno Scenario Ottimistico
Est-ce que la Palestine ira mieux en 2016 ? Y-a-t’il des raisons d’être optimiste et d’espérer dans le contexte morose des évènements qui se produisent actuellement ? Je réponds oui, en dépit des difficultés…La concrétisation, en 2016, de ces raisons d’espérer et … Continue reading Palestine 2016 : Des Perspectives Optimistes
Will Palestine look any better in 2016? Are there any sources of optimism and hope amid these bleak facts and the current events unfolding? Yes, I argue, despite all the odds..The materialization of these sources of hope and optimism, or … Continue reading Palestine 2016: An Optimistic Outlook
The Palestinians know that, more than anything else, they must re-create representative institutions that span besieged and battered Gaza and the West Bank, the refugees still stranded across the Arab world, and the exiles who yearn to go home. Co-authored … Continue reading And When Abbas Goes?
Divulging the Mechanisms of Israeli Apartheid: An Al-Shabaka Panel UCLU Friends of Palestine hosting a panel discussion with members of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, at the Israeli Apartheid Week 2015, London, U.K. Additional information can be found here. Click here … Continue reading The Politics of International Aid and Apartheid
The workshop focused on the following subjects: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Why is it prolonged?; Enforcing human rights: human security through international law and the ICC?; Could peacekeepers provide human security? Can they avoid the mistakes of the past?; Economic … Continue reading New Approaches to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 