Knowledge Library

Pal-Think research output — studies, policy briefs and reports

The fading golden age of oil and its consequences for Middle-East geopolitics — The vast oil revenues of the Arab exporting states — the Gulf above all — have shaped their societies, produced a new value system, and drawn the geopolitical contours of the…
The coming struggle will be over access to the COVID-19 vaccine — The Economist forecast that the race for the COVID-19 vaccine would be one of the sharpest arenas of inter-state competition in 2021 — with 55 million infections and more than 1.3…
Radio episode: The pandemic's toll on Gaza's productive sectors — An episode of the Atlas Network-supported «Gaza Confronts Corona» project hosting Rami Khalaf on the pandemic's effects on Gaza's productive sectors, particularly textiles and…
Fact sheet: The layered environment of the United States presidential electoral system — By Yahya Qaoud, researcher in political science and public policy. The US electoral system is more than 200 years old and enjoys Americans' support, rooted in the nature of the…
Whatever happens in the region, the Palestinians can still reclaim the initiative — By Omar Shaban. Normalisation between some Arab states and Israel is accelerating, serving the determined American drive to integrate Israel into the Arab region first and the…
Fact sheet — the health crisis: cancer patients' hardships deepen under COVID-19 — It is not easy to have cancer — harder still in Gaza, blockaded for 14 years. More than two million people live in the world's most densely populated place without a radiotherapy…
Policy paper: The Rwandan experience and what Palestine can draw from it — Rwanda's success in dealing with its conflict offers an example to countries suffering civil wars, internal divisions or armed conflict: rebuilding a modern state is achievable…
Early financial retirement: an administrative measure without legal basis — By Omar Shaban. «Financial retirement» is an administrative measure — unlawful, illogical and without parallel outside Palestine — adopted by the previous government in March 2017…
Policy paper: Palestinian models of nonviolence in confronting internal crises — The culture of nonviolence in Palestinian society rests on a deep historical reserve of tolerance and shared life: Palestinians have always been one people, sharing the same…
Digital session: nonviolent experiences and their lessons for the Palestinian case — Pal-Think held a digital dialogue over Zoom, «Nonviolent experiences and how to draw on them in the Palestinian case», discussing two research papers — on Rwanda's experience and…
On the chronic electricity crisis — The generators scattered across the Gaza Strip are a standing danger to people's lives — sited with their fuel tanks among homes and on rooftops, unregulated, unregistered, with…
Normalisation, and the need to reclaim the initiative — By Omar Shaban. History does not strike like lightning; it accumulates through small and large events. The erosion of the Palestinian cause's standing began gradually years ago,…