Imprints on the consciousness: The impact on Palestinian civilians of the Israeli Army invasion of West Bank towns

Giacaman, Rita; Husseini, Abdullatif; Gordon, Nahida H.; Awartani, Faisal

doi:10.1093/eurpub/14.3.286

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“…A rich body of literature documents the impact of chronic conflict, violence, humiliation, and imprisonment on Palestinian social institutions, family function, personal coping mechanisms, and development of social support networks (see Khamis 1993;Punamäki et al 2002Punamäki et al , 2005Kanninen et al 2003;Giacaman et al 2004;Roy 2004;Peltonen et al 2010;Hobfall et al 2012 for examples). It should come as no surprise that levels of stress, anxiety, and trauma symptomology are elevated in Palestinian populations living in both West Bank and Gaza Strip communities who are exposed to armed conflict and violence (de Jong et al 2003;Giacaman et al 2007;Khamis 2008;Qouta et al 2008).…”

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Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine

Bonnan-White

Issa

2016

Int J Humanitarian Action

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There remains a critical gap in understanding challenges faced by humanitarian workers who may be key in providing assistance during complex emergencies. This study examines self-reported views by humanitarian workers working in Palestine concerning three concepts: resilience, generalized self-efficacy, and importance of workplace empowerment. Aid workers in Palestine face unique obstacles placed on economic, social, and political autonomy imposed by Israeli policy. Data obtained from 46 humanitarian workers recruited using snowball sampling methodology hint at a complex relationship between the three concepts. Firstly, a hypothesized positive relationship between resiliency and generalized self-efficacy was supported. Secondly, an unexpected negative relationship was found between resiliency and workplace empowerment. Finally, counter to our hypothesis, no significant relationship was found between self-efficacy and workplace empowerment. Gender differences also highlight disparities between the experience of women and men in the non-profit workplace in Palestine. This study adds to our knowledge regarding unique stresses on humanitarian workers and enhances a growing base of literature focused on national staff and volunteers.

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Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine

Bonnan-White

Issa

2016

Int J Humanitarian Action

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“…Previous research indicates that the Palestinian population was psychologically and socially affected by the ongoing political violence (Giacaman, Husseini, Gordon, & Awartani, 2004). Al-Ashhab (2005) for example, reported that about two-thirds of Palestinians feel insecure, a feeling reinforced by the growing occurrences of domestic violence.…”

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Psychological Symptomatology among Palestinian Male and Female Adolescents Living under Political Violence 2004–2005

Al‐Krenawi

Lev–Wiesel

Sehwail

2006

Community Ment Health J

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The aim of the study was to investigate gender differences in relation to exposure to domestic violence, political violence, family relations and psychological symptomatology in Palestinian adolescents. The sample consisted of 1766 adolescents, males (54.1%) and females (45.9%), residents of West Bank cities subjected to violent political conflict. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire consisting of the following measures: demographic variables, domestic violence, political violence events, the McMaster Family Assessment Device, and the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) psychological symptomatology. Results indicated that whereas there was no significant difference in the level of exposure to political violence between boys and girls, female adolescents exhibited higher levels of psychological symptoms compared to their male counterparts. Girls also reported higher levels of exposure to domestic violence and lower levels of family function than boys.

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“…19 Yet despite these violent conditions, ICPH researchers embarked on documenting the consequences of incursions and curfews for the social and health-related quality of life of civilians during this period. 20 Simultaneously with our fieldwork, we put in place public health interventions such as operating hotlines to link the population to medication donors, distributing food whenever curfew was lifted for a couple of hours every few days, linking patients to ambulances, and even teaching our students remotely through the use of the internet, telephones, and faxes so that they could complete the semester despite the odds. 21 By the time of the Second Intifada, our ability to access international research had become much improved as BZU's library connected us to various types of international literature search engines.…”

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Reframing Public Health in Wartime: From the Biomedical Model to the “Wounds Inside”

Giacaman

2018

Journal of Palestine Studies

123

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This article traces the research trajectory of the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University, whose work focuses on life and health outcomes for Palestinians living in chronic warlike conditions under Israeli settler-colonial rule. Over decades of field-based work, ICPH researchers came to the realization that medicalized responses to trauma contributed to concealing the social and political meaning that Palestinians attribute to their collective experience. By adopting an approach that linked the biological/ biomedical sphere to the political sphere through the concept of suffering, and exposing the sociopolitical conditions of life and the collective trauma-inducing nature of Israeli military occupation and repression, ICPH's research has allowed for the simultaneous personalization of war and politicization of health. In addition to discussing some of the health problems identified by ongoing investigations, the article also touches on the ways in which institution building and research production are linked to the capacity of Palestinians to endure and resist violation in their struggle for justice.THE MISSION of the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University (BZU) is primarily defined by the extraordinary conditions of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip as territories under protracted Israeli military occupation, now spanning half a century. The institute's work aims to contribute to the protection and improvement of the health of Palestinians: by conducting research, producing knowledge, and generating the evidence required to develop independent and informed health policies, plans, and programs; through teaching; and by strengthening the capacity of public health professionals. Given its public health focus, the institute's primary objective is to test existing health measures or develop new ones, and to produce numerical evidence linking health to the broader context in which people live.ICPH's approach has been interdisciplinary almost from the beginning, with public health defined as a field of inquiry drawing on relevant conceptualizations from the medical sciences, the social sciences, and related disciplines that are subjected to empirical scrutiny. This interdisciplinary approach comes from firsthand experience with life under military occupation and colonization, and is inspired by the work of Rudolf Virchow, the nineteenth-century father of social medicine who coined the aphorism: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a

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Imprints on the consciousness: The impact on Palestinian civilians of the Israeli Army invasion of West Bank towns

Cited by 44 publications

References 13 publications

Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine

Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine

Psychological Symptomatology among Palestinian Male and Female Adolescents Living under Political Violence 2004–2005

Reframing Public Health in Wartime: From the Biomedical Model to the “Wounds Inside”

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