Knowledge Library

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

The tunnel trade between Gaza and Sinai: capital without direction, direction without capital — By Omar Shaban. One challenge of reconciliation is re-absorbing the 55,000 PA employees in Gaza who were told to stop working under the Hamas government; no less important is…
On the Hamas government's budget: a small step on the long road to transparency — By Omar Shaban. From movement to government: until 2007 Hamas looked after its ten thousand members and its educational and social institutions on a budget of $4–5 million a…
The Youth Forum for Tolerance presents a Christmas tree to Gaza's Arab Orthodox church — The Youth Forum for Tolerance presented a Christmas tree as a symbolic gift to the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City — part of its work for religious tolerance among all…
Sport for unity and tolerance — The Youth Forum for Tolerance, with the volleyball federation, launched the «Volleyball of Tolerance» championship — sport for unity and tolerance — attended by Pal-Think's…
Gaza accepts no half-solutions and respects no half-leaders! / Eng. Tayseer Muhaisen — The modern Palestinian revolution has not yet achieved the goals it set out for — but it leaves a record rich in sacrifice and in moral and political achievement. This year's…
Workshop: «Activating youth's role in trade-union work» — The Youth Forum for Tolerance and the Labour Resources Centre held the workshop «Activating youth's role in union work», with more than eighty union and rights activists and…
A call to activate youth's role in political participation and decision-making — Speakers called for activating youth's role in Palestinian society — enabling them to shape policies and strategies and exercise oversight of government, legislative and…
Pal-Think statement denouncing the EU's position on Israeli violence against the Gaza Strip — In an official statement on the current Israeli escalation against Gaza, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton held Hamas and the other Palestinian factions responsible for…
Seminar on popular and international efforts against nuclear weapons in the Middle East and the challenges of non-proliferation — Pal-Think held a seminar on the possibility of a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, at the Al-Quds International Hotel in Gaza, with notable figures and academics — part of its…
Conference: «The blockade on Gaza — assessing the damage and the strategies of response» — At a conference held by Pal-Think with the Heinrich Böll Foundation: the international community must work to lift the blockade of Gaza, whose effects on education, women and the…
Workshop: «How to improve the outcomes of higher education in Palestine» — Specialists and academics stressed rethinking teaching methods and activating courses and activities to serve information technology, the labour market and quality assurance in…
Working-paper summaries of the conference «The blockade on Gaza: assessing the damage and the strategies of response» — Abstracts of the conference «The blockade of Gaza: assessing the effects and strategies of response» — including Dr. Khaled Safi on the blockade's toll on higher education and…