Reconstruction under siege

The Gaza Strip since 2007

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3897657
AutoresSultan Barakat (0000-0003-3747-785X, Professor of Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and Honorary Professor of Politics University of York United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia), Shaun Milton (0000-0002-8126-1231, Senior Research Fellow Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Doha), Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout (0000-0001-8410-4322, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
Año2020
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas477-498
Fecha de publicación2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12394
PMID31343753
OpenAlexW2963511703
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas21

This paper examines the siege of the Gaza Strip, a self-governing Palestinian territory, since 2007. Research on sieges tends to concentrate on the coping strategies of besieged communities, humanitarian issues associated with the impacts, humanitarian access, and the prioritisation of needs, with little or no attention paid to reconstruction. However, Gaza is unusual as a siege environment within which reconstruction has become a high priority in the aftermath of its three destructive wars with Israel. Following an overview of research on sieges in contemporary warfare and a brief contextualisation of Gaza, this paper examines why reconstruction outcomes have varied over time through the application of a theoretical framework that stipulates the importance of four key factors: time; needs; scarcity; and political context. Based on an analysis of these variables, Gaza was found to be a most-likely case for reconstruction under siege. Nonetheless, the large-scale reconstruction necessary to transform Gaza has not been actualised

Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Coping (psychology · Economics · Gaza strip · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Scarcity · Siege · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medicine · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society