. Many saw education as a way out of thepoverty and deprivation they were facing in exile, and accordingly seized anyopportunity to educate their children
education also way of helping children/future generations understand historical and present conditions
he findings presented here of particularvalue to the field of refugee studies, as they comprise a case study of thechallenges involved in providing supposedly apolitical welfare in an arenasaturated with politic
but education is always political...
it is the apolitical stance that governs the work of UN agencies in theoPt that is being challenged: in other words, humanitarian and development initiatives needto be paired with an effective political agenda.
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The analysis shows how UN agencies’ developmentagendas implemented through humanitarian work are falling short within the context of siegeand near-constant violence that is the reality of everyday life in the Gaza Strip. It provides yetanother indication that development in the oPt is not a technical issue nor a matter of theappropriate governance tools: it does not take place in a vacuum as the actions of many inter-national donors seem to suggest.
main argument
interviewed a group ofproject beneficiaries and members of a camp development committee
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nd the camp’s popular committee involved in the project’s implementation
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research draws on scholarly literature and official reports, on semi-structured inter-views with UNRWA officers, as well as engineers from the Deir El-Balah town municipality
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