L’Ue ha lanciato Eupol Copps nel 2006 per sostenere la nascita di uno Stato palestinese indipendente e democratico. Piú di un decennio dopo, l’Ue considera Eupol Copps una delle sue migliori missioni che ha professionalizzato il settore della polizia e … Continue reading La Missione Di Polizia Dell’unione Europea Nei Territori Palestinesi
Outsourcing Repression is a collection of analyses and essays on the roots, manifestations and consequences of the paradigm of security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The book discusses four key themes: the evolution and reform of Palestinian security … Continue reading Outsourcing Repression: Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination
Three things could help to build an inclusive and participatory political system, which could empower Palestinians in their journey towards self-determination, statehood and meaningful democracy. Firstly, the one-man leadership model should be replaced with a collective form of leadership. The … Continue reading Why Palestinians Must Rethink their Governance
The lack of a sovereign Palestinian state and the continuation of the Israeli illegal military occupation according to international law, have profoundly affected the social transformation, institutional development, political economy, and politics of Palestine. This chapter also reflects on the … Continue reading Palestine
Alaa Tartir discusses his new edited anthology: Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance. A new look into how international aid and also the Palestinian security reform are mechanisms which are used to crush Palestinian resistance to … Continue reading Palestine and Rule of Power
This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. … Continue reading Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance
De-development is not an unfortunate or coincidental outcome, but a deliberate and focused colonial strategy. To continue under these circumstances is to undertake an act of resistance: to farm Palestine is to farm for freedom. Published at The Middle East … Continue reading Palestinian farmers caught between Israeli rock and PA hard place
Since the Oslo Accords came into force in 1993, the European Union (EU) and its individual member-states have invested billions of Euros, with a view to establishing the basis for an independent and sovereign Palestinian state. As Israel’s colonization of … Continue reading The Limits of Securitized Peace: The EU’s Sponsorship of Palestinian Authoritarianism
This chapter will initially provide an overview of the Palestinian agricultural sector, which sets out its resources, productivity and contributions. This is then followed by a discussion of the impact of the Israeli occupation, which focuses on the distortion and … Continue reading Farming for Freedom: The Shackled Palestinian Agricultural Sector
“You have something in this world, so stand for it,” the Palestinian writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani, who was assassinated by Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, once said. The Palestinians in Gaza, Haifa, Jerusalem, and elsewhere are doing precisely this: standing … Continue reading Palestinians Have Been Abandoned by Their Leaders
This report consists of a mapping of donor aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) from 2012-14, and where possible, 2015. The information was compiled making use of multiple databases, reports and published studies, as well as direct letters of … Continue reading Mapping of Donor Funding to The Occupied Palestinian Territories 2012 – 2014/15
This people-focused contribution questions fundamental assumptions about the persistence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and discusses prerequisites for alternative strategies. It argues that without addressing people’s perceptions and beliefs, peace will remain elusive. It also argues that moving beyond the cycles … Continue reading Prerequisites for Peace in Palestine/Israel
The panacea for a real change arises through engaging in contentious collective actions that aim to challenge the existing actors and institutions and their claims of political representation. Fundamentally, this necessitates creating new effective, legitimate and representative institutional bodies that … Continue reading What comes after Abbas and Netanyahu?
The EU and its mission are increasingly becoming complicit in the maintenance of the status quo. If the current authoritarian backslide of the PA continues, the EU and its mission will be increasingly criticized for financing, professionalizing, and legitimizing a highly politicized and democratically … Continue reading Policing Palestine
This brief on Palestine is part of a report series from the Evaluation Department – “Country Evaluation Briefs” (CEB) – collecting and summarising existing evaluation findings from selected Norwegian focus countries. The purpose is to make relevant, systematically collected and … Continue reading Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine
Empowering Palestinians means equipping them with the tools to resist Israeli settler colonial rule and enhancing their capacities for solidarity, resilience and steadfastness. International aid actors must recognize and accept that development under military occupation and colonization means first and … Continue reading Militarization of Palestinian Aid
As Israel’s military occupation reaches its 50th year, Al-Shabaka Program Director Alaa Tartir argues that the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have not protected Palestinians, but have instead contributed to the criminalization of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Tartir analyzes … Continue reading The Palestinian Authority Security Forces: Whose Security?
Alaa Tartir of the Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network explains that the Palestinian Economy is unable to grow or develop because the Israeli occupation controls all aspects of the economy. Continue reading Economic Dimensions Militarized Palestine
To really bring about peace would involve de-colonizsing and dismantling the Israeli apartheid regime and ending the illegal Israeli military occupation: That is the first step. But neither the US administration, nor Abbas or Netanyahu, are willing to travel this … Continue reading Trump-Abbas Meeting: A Celebration of Egos
Abstract: The Palestinian Authority (PA) adopted donor-driven security sector reform (SSR) as the linchpin to its post-2007 state-building project. As SSR proceeded, the occupied West Bank became a securitized space and the theater for PA security campaigns whose ostensible purpose … Continue reading Criminalizing Resistance: The Cases of Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps
The Palestinian Authority is paying more than $40m each month to keep its 33,550 security employees in Gaza on a leave of absence. Absentees in the security sector have added some $4.8bn to the PA’s wage bill over the past … Continue reading Infographic: The Palestinian Security Sector in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 