Here to help? Western intervention and gender in the Palestinian public sphere

Sienkiewicz, Matt

doi:10.1177/1367877912460612

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“…NGOs are also widely supported by donations from international NGOs as part of their democracy promotion programmes and much work in partnership with international development agencies such as United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Such associations also undermine the NGOs’ independence and illustrate how the domestic affairs of the OPT can be exposed to the influence of donors and the foreign policies of the donors’ respective countries (Challand, 2009; Sienkiewicz, 2012).…”

Section: Understanding Local Radio In the Context Of Interaction Between Women And (Women’s) Ngos In The West Bankmentioning

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Increasing female participation in municipal elections via the use of local radio in conflict-affected settings: The case of the West Bank Municipal elections 2017

Heywood

2018

Journalism

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0000-0002-6548-6713 (2018) Increasing female participation in municipal elections via the use of local radio in conflict-affected settings: The case of the West Bank municipal elections 2017. Journalism. AbstractThe 2017 West Bank Municipal elections were framed by locally-based nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and the Palestinian Authoritiesalbeit to a lesser extent in terms of the desirability of increasing female participation in them in two particular ways: participation as representatives and participation as voters. Both aspects of participation were supported by extensive radio campaigns conducted by locally-based NGOs. The effectiveness of these campaigns and the approaches used form the basis of this article. Using a mixed methods approach consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data, it concludes that radio has endemic socio-technical advantages for reaching women, particularly in conflict-affected areas, and that broadcasting content aimed at women by women is essential in terms of increasing their representation and voting.Local and municipal elections were held in the West Bank on 13 th May 2017. 1,224,276 Palestinians were registered and the electoral lists, which according to election law must have a minimum 20% quota for women, were published a month in advance by the Central Elections Commission (CEC) (CEC, 2017). Voter turnout in these elections was considered low (53.4%) indicating frustration at the Palestinian Authority (PA) and political parties generally (CEC, 2017). Participation was similar to previous elections in 2012 and 2005 with little change in the gender distribution (42.8% of electors were women). This was despite extensive radio campaigns in 2017, the main aims of which were to increase the numbers of women as voters and candidates and the activity of women councillors once elected.Official statistics are inconsistent from election to election because of inaccurate and incomparable data presentation and also because of changes in the numbers of electoral localities resulting from the deepening political divide between Gaza and the West Bank. In 2012, there were 1075 female candidates and 3343 male candidates but these figures are not available for 2017. Vague and incomplete statistics show that there were 3543 candidates in 2017 of whom at least 20% were women because of the quota system. Nonetheless, greater and more coordinated activity by women's NGOs could be discerned, particularly via radio, aimed at raising female participation in the elections. This article contributes to the field of both journalism and development studies by examining these radio campaigns and their contribution to female democratic participation in a conflict-affected area. It discusses their effectiveness in relation to women's NGOs' short and long-term objectives and, thus provides transferable insights into the use of radio and women's NGOs that can used in other conflict-affected areas.

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Section: Understanding Local Radio In the Context Of Interaction Between Women And (Women’s) Ngos In The West Bankmentioning

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Increasing female participation in municipal elections via the use of local radio in conflict-affected settings: The case of the West Bank Municipal elections 2017

Heywood

2018

Journalism

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“…When Nossek and Rinnawi (2003) compared press freedom and censorship in Palestine before and after the 1993 Oslo Accords, the authors found that both the Israeli and Palestinian administrations controlled and censored the media through formal and informal methods. The only works published in the last decade are an examination of the daily lives of print journalists (Berger 2013), a comparison of newspaper and online news outlets (Abualrob and Alkhayyat 2014), a case study of the effects of foreign funding on one news outlet (Sienkiewicz 2013), and the history and development of the Palestinian news media (Nuseibeh and Dickinson 2013).…”

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Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists

Schwalbe,

Relly,

Cruikshank

et al. 2024

Journalism and Safety

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Human Security as a Conceptual Framework:The Case of Palestinian JournalistsThis exploratory study introduces a human security framework to examine the challenges that journalists face from daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public in areas of conflict. The research focuses on the influences on Palestinian journalists in one of the most challenging regions in the world for independently reporting the news. Our framework includes seven dimensions of human security: personal, organizational, community/societal, economic, political, geographic, and infrastructural. Our study found that the Palestinian media are military targets, and journalists face direct and indirect censorship by the Israeli government as well as the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Although we have adapted this framework for the Palestinian case in particular, the spheres of these influences on human security would likely pertain to other insecure situations for journalists. Applying this framework to journalism studies could open new avenues of academic discovery to analyze human security beyond violence, safety, and risk. Our main contribution, we suggest, is building out a human security framework for academic journalism studies in contested, conflict-prone, and post-conflict areas around the world.

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