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

Policy analysis: Towards effective national policies against hate speech in Palestine — The paper sets out the policy problem of hate speech and its drivers — occupation, political division and social culture — alongside weak technology ethics and the absence of a…
Research paper: Cooperative work in Palestine from a social perspective — researcher Mohammed Nassar — The paper discusses the social dimension of cooperative work as a gateway to economic and social development in Palestine, identifying obstacles — individualism, aversion to…
Policy paper: Palestinian democracy — a reading of the obstacles to democratic transition and proposals for treatment — The paper catalogues the impediments to democracy in Palestine: an occupation that has deformed society's structures and blocked elections, and a division that has erased national…
Situation assessment: The Saudi–Iranian rapprochement under Chinese sponsorship — causes and consequences — Saudi–Iranian relations have ebbed and flowed since the 1979 revolution; the latest diplomatic rupture came in 2016 after the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the attacks on…
Policy analysis: Towards effective national policies for youth participation in Palestinian elections — A policy-analysis paper on Palestinian youth's participation in decision-making through the ballot box, and how the division and its cumulative fallout have weakened youth…
New release — research paper: The consequences of the absence of Palestinian elections for Gaza's youth — A research paper on what the absence of Palestinian elections — especially general elections — costs young people, as the division deepens in both Gaza and the West Bank while…
New release — research paper: From fragility to marginality — value shifts among youth in Palestinian society over the last two decades — This study by researcher Talal Abu Rokba explores the value shifts among Palestinian youth after the entrenchment of the division — transformations in which politics, economics,…
New release — research paper: Social pluralism and the future of the Palestinian political divide — This paper by Rizq Atawneh describes social pluralism in Palestinian society and its bearing on the future of the political division, testing three central causes assumed to…
New release — research paper: Governance prospects for the Palestinian case in the 2022 Fragile States Index — This study by Islam Mousa Atallah explores the prospects of governance in the current Palestinian situation: despite notable progress, the 2022 Fragile States Index placed…
New release — research paper: The reality of Palestinian youth participation in political parties — The paper focuses on Palestinian youth's participation inside political parties: their ability to rise to senior positions through internal elections and to shape party policies…
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New release: working papers of the «Promoting Entrepreneurship for Palestinian Youth» project — As an independent research institution producing knowledge in Palestinian society, Pal-Think implemented — in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom — the…