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      Identifying the Humanitarian Trap: The American Friends Service Committee’s Perception of its Work With Palestinian Refugees in Gaza, 1948-51

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      Date
      2021-12-02
      Author
      Hartung, Kristen D
      ORCID
      0000-0002-6311-3577
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) engaged in humanitarian work with Palestinians in Gaza as the newly formed United Nations took on a leading role in international humanitarian action. This M.A. thesis suggests that the AFSC’s unique aid relationships with Palestinian refugees in Gaza during the late 1940s was ahead of its time in identifying certain pitfalls at the core of the modern practice of humanitarianism. Rather than continuing to provide relief, the AFSC withdrew from Gaza and recognized that the UN-implemented structure of humanitarian aid in Gaza exacerbated the condition of Palestinian displacement and dispossession. Furthermore, they perceived that an unending cycle of humanitarian action was in formation that prevented the right of return against the overwhelming will of Palestinian refugees themselves.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Labelle, Maurice Jr.
      Committee
      Smith, Martha; Hrynkow, Christopher; Klaasen, Frank; Englebert, Robert
      Copyright Date
      December 2021
      URI
      https://hdl.handle.net/10388/13698
      Subject
      humanitarian
      humanitarianism
      Gaza
      Gaza Strip
      Palestinian
      refugee
      AFSC
      Quaker
      UN
      United Nations
      humanitarian trap
      history of humanitarianism
      modern humanitarians
      Palestinian Refugee
      Service Committee
      Quakers
      Quakerism
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