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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introducing challenges to youth civic engagement and local peacebuilding -- Chapter 2 Youth engagement in local peacebuilding in the Gaza Strip -- Chapter 3 COVID-19, youth, and the engineered social movements in Iran -- Chapter 4 Youth virtual activism in Morocco: The case fact-checkers -- Chapter 5 Challenges to youth civic engagement and community development in Syria -- Chapter 6 Young people, "child soldiers," in the post-conflict phase: Peacebuilding challenges -- Chapter 7 Young women's involvement in the Yemeni conflict: New roles in a changing environment -- Chapter 8 Youth engagement: From uprising to fragile political transition in Yemen -- Chapter 9 Youth in post-conflict reconstruction: The case of the Gaza Strip -- Conclusion: Young people's future direction and engagement -- Index.

Women in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political crisis. Yet the stereotypical view that women are unable to act politically in the socially conservative contexts of the Middle East is a long way from the truth. Here Ibrahim Natil shines a spotlight on how young Palestinian women work through civil society organizations (CSOs) to improve their communities' and their own resilience and empowerment. He first outlines the impact of CSOs upon peaceful struggle, human rights and community development relief assistance, highlighting how CSOs respond rapidly to the needs of the population by delivering social, health, cultural and educational services to all sectors of society during humanitarian crises. He then asks how empowered Palestinian women contribute to CSO missions and how CSO missions reciprocally contribute to Palestinian women's empowerment. Ultimately, young Palestinian women's engagement with CSOs proves to strengthen cooperation, communication and cross-fertilization between CSO groups, which in turn increases these young women's agency. Conflict, Civil Society, and Women's Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a little-known success story, one that makes for required reading for scholars of development, peace studies, conflict resolution and conflict strategy, and which will inspire women's rights activists around the globe.

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is possible and delves into the complexities of managing their long-standing conflict. By interviewing scholars and former policy makers from the Gulf region and abroad, the author draws out the core themes, strategies, and dynamics of the conflict since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to form a basis of an agenda for achieving peace. The result is a fresh perspective on a dangerous and unpredictable rift that affects not only its primary parties – Iran and Saudi Arabia – but also the geopolitics, economic stability and civil wars of the wider Middle Eastern region.

This book is an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, a region becomes a meaningful place for its inhabitants and how different peoples relate to locality through time. Theoretically, the book builds on available anthropological literatures on state formation and border politics to interrogate the presumed impermeability of nationalist discourse and territorial boundaries.

La configuration du droit des affaires en Afrique est intimement liée à l'histoire coloniale du continent. Le processus de l'OHADA s'est contenté d'une uniformisation interne du droit des pays civilistes. Ce droit « harmonisé » des affaires laisse de côté le droit des pays de common law, l'autre facette du paysage juridique africain. L'enjeu est multiple : un rapprochement est souhaitable et possible entre le droit OHADA et la common law. Entre ces deux familles juridiques, c'est plus la compatibilité que l'uniformité qui est recherchée. Cette étude insiste sur cette ouverture vers « l'autre » système, tout en soulignant l'importance du secteur informel, et des us et coutumes qui en découlent

"This book explores the modern role that digital media plays within community engagement and political development. This book discusses real-world case studies in various regions of the world on how the internet is affecting government agendas and promoting the voice of the community"--