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 Darfur and Arab Public Opinion: Strategies for Engagement
8 March 2010
Debate about Darfur in the Arab world is characterised by ignorance and distrust of the West. The Western parameters
for the debate, which have centred on the concepts of 'responsibility to protect' and 'international justice',
fail to engage Arab public opinion. Instead, policy makers ought to facilitate the flow of credible information,
emphasise the Islamic identity of Darfur, and attend to regional development and security. Most importantly,
Arab attitudes to Darfur point to the urgent need for fundamental US and EU policy shifts in the Middle East and
North Africa. This is the subject of the paper Darfur and Arab Public Opinion: Strategies for Engagement by Fafo-researcher Jacob Høigilt, published by FRIDE and financed by The Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref).
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 Raising extremists? Islamism and education in the Palestinian Territories
3 March 2010
Islamic private schools are part of the national fabric of Palestinian society and represent a grass-roots movement that is not about assuming power over the state or recruiting ‘Islamic militants’. Instead, their function is to assert the role of Islam in contributing to Palestinian national development, a function that may or may not be politicised but is neither dramatic nor sinister. In fact, they may be seen as important contributions to building a viable civil society in Palestine. However, the struggle between Fatah and Hamas for political power, along with international counterterrorism measures, has seriously affected a number of Islamic charities and the schools they run. The result is economic problems and a weakening of these institutions in Palestinian society. Based on empirical study of local Islamic private schools in the West Bank and Gaza, Fafo-resaercher Jacob Høigilt's report Raising extremist? analyses their activities and relation to Islamism. This fills a gap in literature about Islamic movements, where education is often mentioned, but seldom taken seriously or studied in detail.
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