An (A)Political Education? UNRWA, Humanitarian Governance, and Education for Palestinian Refugees During the First Intifada (1987–1993)

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ID21323263
AuthorsJo Kelcey (0000-0003-3989-7911, Lebanese American University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume92
Issue3
Pages391-412
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHarvard Educational Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-8055 • E-ISSN: 1943-5045
PublisherHarvard Education Publishing Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17763/1943-5045-92.3.391
OpenAlexW4295885623
LanguageEN
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For millions of people living in humanitarian crisis, education can confer physical and psychological protection and offer a path to a brighter future. Overshadowing this promise, however, are the unavoidable politics of humanitarianism. In this historical case study of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East during the First Intifada (1987–1993), Jo Kelcey shows how the agency’s ostensibly apolitical humanitarian education program was in fact shaped by competing political interests. This case highlights both the impossibility of apolitical education programs and the unforeseen consequences of humanitarian framings for education, ultimately underscoring the need to critically reflect on the value of aligning education to humanitarian discourse and practice

Agency (philosophy) · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration

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