PhD Student at QUB School of Law Receives Award for Article in Prestigious Journal
Early Career Researcher success.
The article “Depoliticised Humanitarianism: Critiquing the Effectiveness of International Aid for the Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery”, has been awarded the Development in Practice Practitioner and Early Career Researcher Prize for 2023. The article is authored by Osama Risheq, Tamara Tamimi (QUB School of Law PhD student), Raghad Adwan, and Dr Munir Nuseibah.
The article, published by the prestigious Development in Practice Journal- a Taylor and Francis publication, was supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council project “Palestinian Bedouin at Risk of Forced Displacement: IHL Vulnerabilities, ICC Possibilities” [grant number AH/T007540/1], administered by Principal investigator Alice Panepinto of Queen’s University Belfast, and Co-investigators Munir Nuseibah of Al-Quds University, Brendan Browne of Trinity College Dublin, and Triestino Mariniello of Liverpool John Moores University. The article formed part of Development in Practice journal’s “Do No Harm/Conflict Sensitivity” Special Issue on Conflict Sensitivity/DNH in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice.
The article addresses several topical dimensions that seek to critically reflect on the efficacy of humanitarian and developmental aid disbursed to Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery. To this end, the article considers the framework in which aid is disbursed, diagnosing that this is done in a depoliticised manner that severely compromises on its effectiveness. Specifically, this section considers how aid is i) disbursed in a post-conflict modality, ii) focuses on practical and humanitarian needs but negates political and strategic aspirations, iii) mitigates symptoms of Israeli-settler colonialism instead of addressing its root causes, iv) lacks political protection from Israeli settler colonial and annexationist policy, and v) is quantitatively insufficient. Further, the article takes the argument of the ineffectiveness of aid one step further in demonstrating the harmful aspects of aid to Palestinians in entrenching the Israeli occupation and advancing settler colonialism.
Tamara expressed her delight at the receipt of the award, “it is an honour to receive this award for the best early career researcher as part of an excellent research team in a highly valuable journal. I hope this will be a step towards many other publications that highlight the plight of Palestinians under Israeli settler colonialism”.
The award announcement can be accessed on the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cdip20/collections/best-paper-practitioner-early-career; the article can be accessed at the website of the publisher on the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DDS7EK3P99PXKP5ZIRRN/full?target=10.
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