{"id":844,"date":"2022-07-22T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/?page_id=844"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:31:33","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/?page_id=844","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Further below you will find various open access publications of our research project according to the following topics (publications will be added continuously):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Transformative Research<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>Solidarities in Lebanon<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><li>War, Reconstruction and Solidarity Economy <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">These topics correspond with our research foci. Based on reconfiguring solidarities in conflict and war zones, KnowWar rests on the following pillars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">    a)&nbsp;To research solidarities in and between marginalized Syrian, Palestinian, and Lebanese<br>        communities in Lebanon,<br>    b) to work out a concept of solidarity economy under conditions of armed conflict in Syria<br>        and colonial occupation in Palestine, and<br>    c) to conceptualise epistemologies for transformative research strategies.<br><br>The contributions are available in Arabic as well. They can be found in the Arabic section of our homepage (and will be added continuously).<br><br>We hope our interventions are interesting for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-white-background-color has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-895 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-scaled.jpg\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;object-position:92% 64%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"92% 64%\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-895\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-scaled.jpg\" style=\"object-position:92% 64%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"92% 64%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spivak.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-1-bei-publikationen-HP-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">Transformative Research<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">asdfasdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Nisren S.H. | Helmut Krieger | Adriana Qubaiova | Klaudia Wieser (2022): A Holistic Approach to Survival: Transforming Research Strategies in Contexts of War and Conflict Zones. KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" id=\"NisrenKriegerQubaiovaWieser\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The autors propose a holistic approach to survival as a transformative research strategy by foregrounding Syrian women&#8217;s readings, analyses and strategies of research under the conditions of massdissplacement and war. Knowledge producers united around issues such as forced disappearance and foregrounding of women\u2019s voices in public debates. Pain was turned into action, and the collective led the process of research and defined its purpose and strategies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b08fd71a-6847-4400-95b8-818a98e5041e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar-and-WND.A-holistic-approach-to-survival.08.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KnowWar and WND.A holistic approach to survival.08.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar-and-WND.A-holistic-approach-to-survival.08.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b08fd71a-6847-4400-95b8-818a98e5041e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Lena Meari | Linda Tabar (2022): Decolonial Feminist Methodologies and Transformative Knowledge Production in\/on the Arab Region: The Case of Syrian Women. KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: While there is a literature which critiques Orientalist-colonialist approaches to analysing Arab (Third world) women, there is a lack of literature that focuses on the methodological and epistemological perspectives that contribute to the reproduction of orientalist-colonialist perspectives. This paper attempts to consider the possibilities that decolonial feminist methodologies can open up for exceeding this predicament, thus inviting further reflections on how decolonial feminist methodologies might be applied in scholarship by and on Arab women\u2019s struggles against the interconnected formations of patriarchy, war and settler colonialism in the region. It asks: what epistemological and methodological approaches and methods are required and can enable us to produce decolonial feminist knowledges that expose how interlocking modern power\/coloniality shape women\u2019s lived experiences in order to facilitate its transformation? How can decolonial feminist knowledge production also be rethought as a process of collaboration with women who resist these material conditions?<\/p><p>The paper argues that the hegemony of liberal feminist approaches and the methodologies connected with them further the reproduction of the coloniality of power in the real social world and in the knowledge production on this social world. It offers examples from reports published by international organisations on Syrian women which reflect the limitations of overlooking structural forces that condition Syrian women\u2019s realities. The paper provides preliminary suggestions to think through and develop decolonial feminist methodologies that relink the decolonisation of knowledge production to practices that aim at decolonisation and the transformation of material structures of power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7d581a00-ba72-4a80-af54-bfc02fbfbb56\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Decolonial-feminist-methodologies.L.Meari-and-L.Tabar_.2022.pdf\">KnowWar.Decolonial-feminist-methodologies.L.Meari-and-L.Tabar_.08.2022-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Decolonial-feminist-methodologies.L.Meari-and-L.Tabar_.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7d581a00-ba72-4a80-af54-bfc02fbfbb56\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">  asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-30 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-869 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-869\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burj-shamali-camp.copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-2-der-HP-publikationen-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">Solidarities in Lebanon<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Raed Eshnaiwer (2022): Critique of the Humanitarian Aid System: Social Solidarity and Alternative Approaches to Refugees and Displacement<\/strong>.<strong> KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: This paper presents some critiques on the international humanitarian aid system, its practices and methods in the contexts of forced migration. It examines how the aid system and international organisations may exacerbate the vulnerability of refugees and local communities through the different controlling mechanisms applied to aid recipients, rather than improving their precarious situation, ensuring their dignity and protecting them from states\u2019 violations of their rights. The paper also discusses solidarity, particularly social solidarity, as one of the complementary\/supportive societal approaches to deal with refugee issues. However, it does not propose considering solidarity as a fully fledged alternative approach to the aid system, since neither can fully replace the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-72d79017-0abe-405a-b74f-01ffec837c1c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Critique-of-the-Humanitarian-Aid-System.R.Eshnaiwer.2022.pdf\">KnowWar.Critique of the Humanitarian Aid System.R.Eshnaiwer.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Critique-of-the-Humanitarian-Aid-System.R.Eshnaiwer.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-72d79017-0abe-405a-b74f-01ffec837c1c\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Rawya Moussa<strong> | Farrah Kattab<\/strong> (2022): Popular Committees in Lebanon and their Role in the Revolutionary Transformation of Society and the Palestinian National Struggle<\/strong>.<strong> KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: This research paper aims to analyse the reality of the Popular Committees in Lebanon, their socio-political and national role during the seventies and eighties period, their role under the current circumstances and challenges (Syrian asylum in the Palestinian camps, economic collapse, Covid-19),the mechanism used by the Popular Committees to establish social solidarity networks in the light of challenges and difficulties, their role in changing the concept of solidarity and Palestinian National Struggle, the shortcomings in the mechanism of work and performance of the Popular Committees, and the factors that play a negative role in influencing the Popular Committees and their national role. This research paper also includes a set of recommendations that were put forward during the discussions with secretaries, members of Popular Committees, and activists in the Palestinian camps to highlight and realise their role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4f9a6af5-7353-4259-b584-4864d7f489b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KnowWar.Palestinian-National-Struggle.Mousawat.Final_.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KnowWar.Palestinian National Struggle.Mousawat.Final.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KnowWar.Palestinian-National-Struggle.Mousawat.Final_.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4f9a6af5-7353-4259-b584-4864d7f489b8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">aaaaaaa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                          <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-40 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-871 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-871\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/copyright-helmut-krieger.fur-topic-3-bei-publikationen-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">War, Reconstruction and Solidarity Economy<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Helmut Krieger (2022): &#8216;Diejenigen, die zur\u00fcckgeblieben sind, waren \u00fcberlebende Geister&#8217;. Das pal\u00e4stinensische Fl\u00fcchtlingslager Yarmouk und der Aufstand in Syrien. KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong> (Engl.): This paper focuses on the experiences and analyses of two activists from the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in the south of Damascus, Abdallah Alkhatib and Ahmed Hassan. They were interviewed on the following key issues: the spillover of the uprising in Syria on Yarmouk, the significance neutrality had in Palestinian analyses, the Syrian regime\u2019s war strategies, the phenomenon of militarisation of the uprising, the rise to power of jihadist organisations, and the fundamental issue of their own political as well as social activities under conditions of sieges, bombardments, and jihadist control of the camp. The paper sets out a multidirectional understanding of developments in Yarmouk as well as, more generally, of Palestinian existence in Syria in times of conflict and war. In doing so, it creates scope for approaching a suppressed history of the war in Syria in a comprehensive way.<\/p><p><strong>Abstract <\/strong>(Ger.): Im Zentrum dieses Beitrages stehen die Erfahrungen, Einsch\u00e4tzungen und Analysen von zwei Aktivisten aus dem pal\u00e4stinensischen Fl\u00fcchtlingslager Yarmouk im S\u00fcden von Damaskus, Abdallah Alkhatib und Ahmed Hassan, die zu folgenden Schwerpunkten interviewt wurden: die Ausstrahlungen des Aufstandes in Syrien auf Yarmouk, die Bedeutung von Neutralit\u00e4t in pal\u00e4stinensischen Einsch\u00e4tzungen der Lage, die Kriegsstrategien des syrischen Regimes, das komplexe Ph\u00e4nomen der Militarisierung des Aufstandes, die Macht\u00fcbernahme durch jihadistische Organisationen sowie die grundlegende Frage nach den eigenen M\u00f6glichkeiten politischer und sozialer Aktivit\u00e4ten unter Bedingungen von Blockade, Bombardierungen und jihadistischer Pr\u00e4senz. In dem Beitrag wird ein multiperspektivisches Verst\u00e4ndnis konkreter Entwicklungen in Yarmouk sowie, allgemeiner, der pal\u00e4stinensischen Existenz in Syrien in Zeiten des Krieges dargelegt. Damit schafft er die M\u00f6glichkeit, sich einer verdr\u00e4ngten Geschichte des Krieges in Syrien differenziert anzun\u00e4hern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b14b5398-ba7a-4158-ba9f-51352562c77d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/KnowWar.Yarmouk-und-der-Aufstand-in-Syrien.H.Krieger.2022.pdf\">KnowWar.Yarmouk-und-der-Aufstand-in-Syrien.H.Krieger.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/KnowWar.Yarmouk-und-der-Aufstand-in-Syrien.H.Krieger.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b14b5398-ba7a-4158-ba9f-51352562c77d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tareq Sadeq (2022): Solidarity Economy and the Struggle of Trade Unions: One Combined Approach for Resilience and Resistance in Palestine<\/strong>.<strong> KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: Recent years have seen growing debates about the optimal structure of the Palestinian economy. Out of more than 28 years of enforced economic dependency on the relation with the colonial Israeli power, the need emerged to change the structure of the Palestinian economy to be inclusive and resistant against colonialism. This paper seeks the potential founding structure which can empower solidarity and resistant economic actions. Trade unions, marginalised during the post-Oslo era by the political factions and the Palestinian Authority, are at the centre of our investigation. The paper finds that trade unions, as decentralised wide networks struggling for the rights of workers, have a potentially adequate structure for a solidarity economy supporting the resilience and resistance of the Palestinian people against the Israeli colonial power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6c3d0091-ba09-40a2-aa70-b30de053ad56\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Solidarity-Economy-and-the-Struggle-of-Trade-Unions.T.Sadeq_.2022.pdf\">KnowWar.Solidarity Economy and the Struggle of Trade Unions.T.Sadeq.08.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/KnowWar.Solidarity-Economy-and-the-Struggle-of-Trade-Unions.T.Sadeq_.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6c3d0091-ba09-40a2-aa70-b30de053ad56\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) (2022): Identity Politics in Syria: A Background Paper<\/strong>.<strong> KnowWar Publication Series, Vienna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The bloody conflict that has been going on for the past 11 years entailed systematic processes aimed at mobilising individual and collective identities and turning them into an instrument in the conflict, thereby forcing cultural affiliations and identities onto the battlefield. This was achieved through different practices and policies, including intimidation, incitement, hatred, fanaticism, demonisation, and dehumanisation, as well as amplification of sectarian, ethnic, political, social, regional and class differences.<br>This paper builds on the following main questions: why focus on \u2018Identity politics\u2019 and how has this concept been employed by warring parties in Syria? Why has the description of the armed conflict after the Syrian uprising as a sectarian-based and\/or ethnicbased conflict become dominant in many academic and political studies or even in activists\u2019 testimonies?<br>This background paper first presents an overview of the impact of the Syrian war and the massive destruction it has caused, both economically and socially, over the past decade. Secondly, a theoretical and conceptual background will be presented. It briefly addresses the concept of \u2018Identity Politics\u2019 and the differences among the theoretical schools regarding the relationship between identity, culture and politics, particularly the relationship between \u2018Identity Politics\u2019 and conflicts within some countries after the end of the Cold War. Third, the concept of \u2018Identity Politics\u2019 will be used to analyse rhetorical and actual sectarianisation, especially the fact that many warring forces adopted an exclusionist discourse, and carried out violent acts based on an explicit sectarian or ethnic basis. Finally, the conclusion proposes a theoretical framework and an approach to analyse the impact of employment of \u2018Identity Politics\u2019 in the Syrian conflict, which takes into account the necessity of analysing current local solidarity mechanisms, and their role in addressing the divisions imposed by the conflict, on the one hand, and linking them to the political economy and challenges imposed by the lack of justice and accountability, and the sustainable plans to address the impacts of the war, on the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e19a4056-2c5b-4b0f-b241-c99a3741beff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KnowWar.Identity-politics-in-Syria.SCPR_.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KnowWar.Identity politics in Syria.SCPR.2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.know-war.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KnowWar.Identity-politics-in-Syria.SCPR_.2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e19a4056-2c5b-4b0f-b241-c99a3741beff\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further below you will find various open access publications of our research project according to the following topics (publications will be added continuously): Transformative Research Solidarities in Lebanon War, Reconstruction and Solidarity Economy These topics correspond with our research foci. 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