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Tami Amanda Jacoby investigates the constraints and opportunities for women's civic engagements in zones of conflict through a case study of three women's political movements in Israel: Women in Green, The Jerusalem Link, and the lobby for women's right to fight in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

"The construction of the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank has become the site of one of the most heated controversies the world over, the source of virulent propaganda, incitement and hatred. Tami A. Jacoby explores the incongruent narratives of Israelis and Palestinians with regards to Israel's security barrier and the policy of unilateral withdrawal. This insightful book offers a multidimensional approach that takes into consideration different sides of the barrier conflict as well as internal divisions. It also observes how the barrier affects the lives of individuals and communities through the rapid profusion of events in the legal, political, social and military sphere."--Provided by publisher.

The construction of the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank has become the site of one of the most heated controversies the world over. This insightful book offers a multidimensional approach that takes into consideration different sides of the barrier conflict and observes how it affects the lives of individuals and communities.

Introduction: redefining security in the Middle East / Tami Amanda Jacoby and Brent E. Sasley -- Conceptualizing security in the Middle East: Israel and a Palestinian state / Lenore G. Martin -- Between militarism and moderation in Israel: constructing security in historical perspective / Jonathan B. Isacoff -- Between Islam and Islamism: a dialogue with Islam as a pattern of conflict resolution and a security approach vis-a-vis Islamism / Bassam Tibi -- Gender relations and national security in Israel / Tami Amanda Jacoby -- Understanding environmental security: water scarcity, the 1980's Palestinian uprising and implications for peace / Jeffrey Sosland -- Political Islam and the Middle East peace process: a veiled threat / Thomas J. Butko -- The effects of political liberalization on security / Brent E. Sasley

What (and who) is a victim? In contemporary violent conflicts, the construction of grievance-based identity is a fundamentally contested process as the lines between victim and perpetrator are blurred by ongoing cycles of belligerence and retribution. As victims are incorporated into broader political campaigns, it becomes nearly impossible to separate the victim from the politics. The ubiquity of victims in international politics is a serious challenge to International Relations theory as categories of victim and perpetrator are generally treated as 'prior or external to analysis' instead of as propositions for further inquiry. This article formulates a political theory of victimhood driven by a distinction between victimisation as an act of harm perpetrated against a person or group, and victimhood as a form of collective identity based on that harm. It proposes a sequence of five stages that victims experience from the act of victimisation to the recognition of victim-based identity: (1) structural conduciveness, (2) political consciousness, (3) ideological concurrence, (4) political mobilisation and (5) political recognition. The article explores the stages with concrete examples and offers three main challenges for future research. First, as an identity, victimhood is more prominent in societies that recognise justice. Second, victimhood accompanies struggles for recognition. Third, victim rivalries obfuscate straightforward analysis of victimhood in conflict zones.