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Entered date: 2006-12-20
Karin Aggestam analyses international observership and conflict prevention in a chapter in the anthology
Between Terrorism and Civil War. The Al-Aqsa Intifada
(Routledge, 2005).
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About the Book
Definitions of the Al-Aqsa intifada have ranged from being part of the global war on terrorism, an asymmetric inter-state war, to being part of the on-going Palestinian struggle for national liberation. All have validity as explanatory paradigms, but equally, none can capture fully the dynamics of this conflict. By contrast, this volume seeks to explore whether the current violence, its origins and dynamics can best be understood as a manifestation of civil war. In so doing, it explores the following questions: how the use of violence by all parties has been conditioned and or constrained by the domestic factors pertaining to their societies; how external actors have dealt with the violence internally, and how, in turn, this has impacted on their relations with Israel and the Palestinians; and what does the conduct and scope of the Al-Aqsa intifada suggest about the broader issue of state boundaries and state legitimacy in the contemporary Middle East?
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Civil Wars.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Between Terrorism and Civil War Clive Jones
2. The Causes of Vigilante Political Violence: The case of Jewish settlers Ami Pedahzur and Aire Perliger
3. In the Shadow of the al-Aqsa Intifada: Palestinians and political reform As'ad Ghanem and Aziz Khayed
4. TIPH: Preventing conflict escalation in Hebron? Karin Aggestam
5. Jordan, the Palestinians and the al-Aqsa Intifada Joseph Nevo
6. The Al-Aqsa Intifada as seen in Egypt Hassan Barari
7. Stressing the Probable, Postponing the Improbable: Hizbollah in the shadow of the al-Aqsa intifada Mats Warn
8. Conclusion: Terrorism, liberation or civil war? Clive Jones
