Palestinian Territories

Civil Society & Inclusive Peace (Peace Direct, 2019)

February 20, 2019

Inclusive peace, or the idea that all stakeholders in a society should have a role in defining and shaping peace, is receiving widespread global recognition. Still, despite the progress made through the increased recognition of inclusive peace at the theoretical and policy level, it has proven difficult to achieve in reality. Peace Direct teamed up with the Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict to explore the dynamics of inclusivity and peacebuilding in further detail in this report.

The report includes in-depth case studies from around the world, that help us to understand the strategies employed by grassroots peacebuilders to counter the challenges to effective inclusion in peacebuilding. From Nigeria to DR Congo, explore the case studies below to see what has worked (or not) in particular situations, and the successes, challenges and stalemates encountered on the pursuit to inclusive peace.

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Adolescents with disabilities: enhancing resilience and delivering inclusive development (GAGE Consortium Report, 2018)

July 30, 2018

This new report takes stock of what is known about adolescents with disabilities living in the global South. Drawing on interviews with approximately 600 adolescent girls and boys with physical, visual, hearing or intellectual impairments, as well as interviews with their parents, teachers and other service providers, it also presents emerging findings from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan and the State of Palestine. This report focuses, for the first time, on the intersection of age and disability – specifically the unique needs of adolescents with disabilities – and the gender dynamics that shape girls’ and boys’ lives. Alongside this, it also looks at the particular experiences of adolescents with disabilities who grow up in rural areas and conflict-affected contexts.

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Audience Research in Media Development (DW Akademie Report and Case Studies, 2017)

May 28, 2018

The three case studies presented in the publication “Audience Research in Media Development” are directly related to ongoing DW Akademie media development projects. The first case study addresses the measurement of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) of young media users aged 12 to 16 years in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank). The second focuses on the impact of radio broadcasts on women and land rights (station: Nam Lolwe) in Kenya. It was designed as a quasi-experiment, comparing listeners of the radio stations to potential listeners and non-listeners. The third study examines the social media strategies of two community radio stations (Granada Stereo and Contacto 10) in Colombia. It uses focus groups, a survey, and digital analytics methods. Results and lessons learned of all three case studies are presented in the publication.

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New Media and Communication volume: ‘Peacebuilding and New Media’

February 27, 2016

Media and Communication is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields. It aims to provide a research forum on the social and cultural relevance of media and communication processes.

Their latest volume [Vol 4, No 1 (2016)] has a special focus on ‘Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media’ and considers several global case studies.

Table of Contents:
– Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
– Elicitive Conflict Transformation and New Media: In Search for a Common Ground
– Likes for Peace: Can Facebook Promote Dialogue in the Israelia/Palestinian Conflict?
– Fields and Facebook: Grassroots Activism and Archiving the Peace that Will Have Come in Israel/Palestine
– Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools: Escaping the Control of the Syrian Regime
– EU Armed Forces Use of Social Media in Areas of Deployment
– Building Peace through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media
– Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa

Media development: An evaluation of five capacity-strengthening projects (BBC Media Action Research report 2016)

February 5, 2016

This research report articulates BBC Media Action’s evolving approach to capacity strengthening within the media development sector. It shares findings from the recent evaluation of five different capacity-strengthening interventions in Nigeria, Tanzania, Nepal and the Palestinian Territories.

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