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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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dc.contributor.advisorLabelle, Maurice Jr.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSmith, Martha
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHrynkow, Christopher
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKlaasen, Frank
dc.contributor.committeeMemberEnglebert, Robert
dc.creatorHartung, Kristen D
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-6311-3577
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-02T19:15:33Z
dc.date.available2021-12-02T19:15:33Z
dc.date.created2021-12
dc.date.issued2021-12-02
dc.date.submittedDecember 2021
dc.date.updated2021-12-02T19:15:33Z
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/13698
dc.subjecthumanitarian
dc.subjecthumanitarianism
dc.subjectGaza
dc.subjectGaza Strip
dc.subjectPalestinian
dc.subjectrefugee
dc.subjectAFSC
dc.subjectQuaker
dc.subjectUN
dc.subjectUnited Nations
dc.subjecthumanitarian trap
dc.subjecthistory of humanitarianism
dc.subjectmodern humanitarians
dc.subjectPalestinian Refugee
dc.subjectService Committee
dc.subjectQuakers
dc.subjectQuakerism
dc.titleIdentifying the Humanitarian Trap: The American Friends Service Committee’s Perception of its Work With Palestinian Refugees in Gaza, 1948-51
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewan
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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