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Religion, politics, and the origins of Palestine refugee relief

Author: Asaf Romirowsky; Alexander H Joffe
Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. It situates the operation within the context of the AFSC's attempts to exercise new influence on the separate issues of pacifism and disarmament at a time marked by US efforts to construct a Cold War security regime in the Middle  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Asaf Romirowsky; Alexander H Joffe
ISBN: 9781137378163 1137378166 1137378174 9781137378170
OCLC Number: 855581305
Description: vi, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Studying the Palestine Arab Refugee Problem --
Early Scholarship on the Refugee Crisis --
1970s and 1980s --
The "New Historians" --
Scholarship-Advocacy --
Studying the AFSC and Relief Organizations --
The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee: Origins of the Quakers and Quaker Ideology --
Friends and the AFSC from the Civil War to World War I --
Quakers and the Theology and Politics of American Protestant Missions in the Middle East --
World War II and European Refugee Relief 1945-1948 --
THE AFSC and the Politics of Pacifism --
The AFSC in the Middle East: The Official Origins of AFSC Involvement in the Middle East --
Religious Diplomacy and the Origins of AFSC Involvement in the Middle East --
AFSC and Palestine Arab Refugee Relief, Summer 1948 --
Institutionalizing Palestine Arab Relief --
How Many Refugees? --
AFSC in the Field: December 1948-Dccember 1949 --
Early Operations and Growing Concerns --
Pickett Goes to the Middle East and Changing Perceptions" in Early 1949 --
AFSC and the Politics of Regional Development --
AFSC, UNRPR, and Local Economies, Spring and Summer 1949 --
AFSC, the Economic Survey Mission, and Regional Development --
Internal Tensions and International Solutions, Fall 1949 --
The AFSC and UNRWA: The End of UNRPR --
The Last Gasp of American Voluntary Organizations --
AFSC as an UNRWA Contractor --
International Security and the Question of Reintegration --
AFSC Retrospectives on the UNRPR and UNRWA --
AFSC and the Middle East after 1953 --
Assessing the AFSC as an Early NGO --
AFSC, NGOs, UNRWA, and Moral Hazard --
AFSC, UNRWA, and the Question of Anti-Semitism --
Conclusions.
Responsibility: Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe.
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This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. Using archival  Read more...

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