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Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2014

MANDY TURNER
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Abstract

It is often suggested that Western peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory has failed because it has not delivered a viable Palestinian state. But if peacebuilding is reinterpreted as a form of counterinsurgency whose goal is to secure a population, then it has not failed – in fact, on the contrary, it has been quite successful. This article therefore critically evaluates the idea and practice of peacebuilding as counterinsurgency by exploring the symbiosis in the philosophy and methods of COIN and peacebuilding, and charts its implementation in the oPt through the realms of governance, development, and security. It argues that peacebuilding in this context operates as another layer of pacification techniques whose goal is to secure the Palestinian population and ensure acquiescence in the face of violent dispossession.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 73 - 98
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148 Tuastad, ‘The Role of International Clientelism’, pp. 798–9; David Rose, ‘The Gaza Bombshell’, Vanity Fair (April 2008), available at: {http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804} accessed 1 April 2013.

149 International Crisis Group, ‘Ruling Palestine I: Gaza under Hamas’, Middle East Report No. 73 (19 March 2008); Pelham, ‘The role of the tunnel economy’.

150 Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Green shoots in Palestine’, The New York Times (5 August 2009), available at: {http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/opinion/05friedman.html} accessed 1 May 2013; Nathan J. Brown, ‘Requiem for Fayyadism’, Foreign Policy (17 April 2013).

151 Samour and Khalidi, ‘Neoliberalism and the Contradictions’.

152 Palestinian National Authority, ‘The Palestinian Reform and Development Plan, 2008–2010’.

153 This was also true for Cambodia where the Western donors largely abandoned their liberal democratic agenda of in favour of a ‘good governance’ agenda that focused on promoting investor-friendly economic governance than on democratisation. See Hughes, Caroline, The Political Economy of Cambodia's Transition 1991–2001 (London: Routledge, 2003)Google Scholar.

154 Interviews conducted with a variety of organisations working with the agricultural sector and business sector, and local aid coordination committee official, Ramallah (July 2008), September 2009.

155 OECD Database.

156 Nathan J. Brown, ‘Sunset for the two-state solution’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington DC, May 2008).

157 International Crisis Group, ‘Ruling Palestine II: The West Bank Model’ (ICG: July 2008), pp. 4–8.

158 Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, ‘Peace through Security: Keynote Address’, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (7 May 2009), available at: {http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/DaytonKeynote.pdf}.

159 N. Thrall, ‘Our Man in Palestine’, New York Review of Books (14 October 2010), available at: {http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/our-man-palestine/?pagination=false} accessed 1 September 2013.

160 Quoted in John Reed, ‘The Palestinian economy's hard road out of isolation’, Financial Times (6 November 2013), available at: {http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7d436d30-3fdc-11e3-a890-00144feabdc0.html#slide0} accessed 8 November 2013.

161 Since 2002, USAID has included an Anti-Terror Clause (ATC) in its contract arrangements with implementing partners in the oPt to ensure that no funding goes to individuals or groups on the US terrorist list.

162 Michele Gyeney, ‘Play satirises how aid donors sideline Palestinians’, Electronic Intifada (1 July 2012), available at: {http://electronicintifada.net/content/play-satirizes-how-aid-donors-sideline-palestinians/11450} accessed 1 September 2013.