CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Poskeviciute, Justina |
|---|---|
| Title | Sustainable Development Practices in Protracted Refugee Situations: the West Bank |
| Summary | The concept of human security has undergone some major changes in the past decades and is still characterised by a number of debates that relate closely to development issues. Protracted refugee situations resonate with several of them and thus become useful cases to analyse. In my thesis, I choose the West Bank as my case study and ask how certain structural conditions affect the way sustainable development projects are implemented in the region. After having interviewed professionals from three organisations implementing such projects in Palestine, I find out that although these conditions comprise highly inconvenient obstacles for – but do not completely change agendas of – these organisations, it is the same conditions that keep development at a much slower pace than the region could experience. Not only does the political nature of this phenomenon call for an environmental justice approach to be utilised in such cases, but it also bridges the conceptual divide between human security scholars and supports the claim that protracted refugee situations should not be approached as other humanitarian crises. |
| Supervisor | Fumagalli, Matteo |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/poskeviciute_justina.pdf |
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