Palestinian Women at the Intersection of Colonial and Patriarchal Violence: Cultural renegotiations of religion and tradition in Gaza

该项目探讨了在巴勒斯坦干预针对妇女的暴力行为（VAW）所面临的挑战，这是一个男权社会，也是在军事殖民占领下。该研究以加沙地带为重点，调查了巴勒斯坦妇女对性侵的看法和经历，以及她们对在其社区实施的性侵干预措施的态度。它批判性地考察了对暴力侵害的国际世俗干预模式，同时探索了通过重新利用某些宗教和传统规范来打击暴力侵害的可能性，这些规范是巴勒斯坦社会凝聚力和生存在定居者殖民占领背景下的基础。通过这样做，它在军事殖民暴力和伊斯兰社会父权制的交叉点产生了关于暴力侵害妇女行为的新知识。这是一个应用研究项目，受参与式行动研究的影响。它使用定性方法来解决加沙巴勒斯坦妇女如何应对暴力侵害行为，以及她们如何体验在加沙实施的大多数世俗干预模式。该项目还将涉及妇女权利领域的关键专业人士（非政府组织、警察、心理学家）以及社区和宗教领袖，同时突出巴勒斯坦妇女的声音和关切。这是与设在加沙的两个巴勒斯坦组织——加沙精神健康方案和拯救青年未来协会——的合作项目，申请人与这两个组织建立了工作关系。申请人在妇女权利领域拥有丰富的经验，她计划在完成博士学位后利用研究结果实施新的基于社区的妇女权利保护试点项目。

This project examines the challenges of intervening inViolence Against Women (VAW) in Palestine, a patriarchalsociety, which is also under military-colonial occupation.With a focus on the Gaza Strip, the study examinesPalestinian women's perceptions and experiences of VAWas well as their attitudes toward the interventions on VAWimplemented in their communities. It critically examinesinternational secular models of interventions on VAWwhile, at the same time, exploring the possibility ofcombatting VAW by reappropriating certain religious andtraditional norms, on which Palestinian social cohesion andsurvival rest in the context of settler colonial occupation. Bydoing so, it produces new knowledge on VAW at theintersection of military-colonial violence and patriarchy inIslamic societies. This is an applied research project,which is influenced by participatory action research. Ituses qualitative methods to address how Gaza Palestinianwomen respond to VAW and how they experience themostly secular models of interventions implemented inGaza. The project will also involve key professional figuresin the field of VAW (NGOs, police, psychologists) andcommunity and religious leaders while foregrounding thevoices, concerns of Palestinian women. This is acollaborative project with two Gaza-based Palestinianorganisations-The Gaza Mental Health Programme andthe Save Youth Future Society-with which the applicanthas established working relationships. The applicant hasextensive experience in the field of women rights, and sheis planning to use the findings of the research forimplementing new community-based pilot projects onVAW after the completion of the PhD.