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Title: WOMEN, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PALESTINE
Authors: Dr Amneh Badran
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Dr Amneh Badran The author is a former Director of the Jerusalem Centre for Women (JCW) of the Jerusalem Link (1999- 2005), where she worked closely with the staff and members of Bat Shalom, aiming to promote peace from below. She brings insights from her own experience. (Dr. Amneh Badran, obtained her PhD from Exeter University in the UK. Currently she is Head of Department of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Global Studies at AlQuds University, Palestine)
MLA 8 Badran, Dr Amneh. "WOMEN, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PALESTINE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 4, no. 5, May 2019, pp. 3742-3756, ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=284. Accessed May 2019. APA Badran, D. (2019, May). WOMEN, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PALESTINE. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 4(5), 3742-3756. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=284 Chicago Badran, Dr Amneh. "WOMEN, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PALESTINE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 4, no. 5 (May 2019), 3742-3756. Accessed May, 2019. ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=284.
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Abstract: Palestinian women became involved in peace-building initiatives in 1987 and were ready to establish channels of communication with Israeli individuals and groups. After the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, Palestinian women activists worked in partnership with Israeli women to institutionalize women's peace-building work. At the civil society level, two institutions were established: one Palestinian (the Jerusalem Center for Women) and the other Israeli (Bat Shalom). Together, through dialogue, they built political initiatives under the umbrella of the Jerusalem Link, where staff and members of the two institutions could meet with the aim of developing a women's joint vision for (just) peace as well as organizing activities to promote this vision. A weakening Palestinian civil society post-Oslo and failure to achieve a fully agreed upon joint vision for peace diminished the effectiveness of the Jerusalem Link, some of whose functions were eventually taken over by the International Women's Forum in 2008.

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