Knowledge Library

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

Youth policy paper: Restrictions on Palestinian youth's freedom of movement — The paper focuses on the restrictions on Palestinian youth's freedom of movement and travel — a right guaranteed by international human-rights law — documenting the complications…
Youth policy paper: Mechanisms for strengthening student participation in community work — This paper examines why extracurricular activity has declined in the universities — one of the routes to community engagement — and proposes mechanisms by which higher-education…
Youth policy paper: Advancing youth political participation while elections remain stalled — Political participation is one of the means by which young people express their aspirations and their will to serve their society — yet in Palestine the postponement and…
Youth policy paper: Towards effective policies for women's rights in the Gaza Strip — A youth policy paper produced under Pal-Think's NED-funded «Civic Education 2» project, on strengthening women's political, social and economic rights in the Gaza Strip and the…
Youth policy paper: Raising the minimum wage in the Gaza Strip — between adoption and enforcement — A youth policy paper under the NED-funded «Civic Education 2» project, discussing the government's decision to raise the minimum wage and the possibility of applying it in Gaza…
New release — policy paper: What the absence of Palestinian elections costs the society and the cause — This policy paper tracks the catastrophic political and legal fallout of the absence of Palestinian elections — the distortion of all three branches of government after the…
Policy paper: The Russia–Ukraine war and Palestine's food-security dilemma — the worst is yet to come / Omar Shaban & Yahya Qaoud — The paper discusses the Ukraine war's effects on food security in Palestine — the economic consequences of food shortages and price rises, and the divergent government policies in…
Youth Papers programme — episode one — Pal-Think opened the first radio episode of «Youth Papers» on Zaman FM, under phase two of the NED-funded Civic Education project — building young leaders able to spread…
What are you doing about the food shortage — and why were no grain silos ever built in the Palestinian territories? — By Omar Shaban. Russia's war in Ukraine is not only military operations: it extends to averting shortages of essential foodstuffs — above all wheat and cooking oil — of which most…
Position paper: Local elections in the West Bank — an important step towards restoring democracy that must be completed — Local-council elections in the West Bank are a significant milestone on the Palestinian democratic path. Pal-Think closely observed the second phase of the process, held across…
Policy paper: Condemnation and its considerations — the Palestinians' delicate balance on the war in Ukraine — After the first shock of the war subsided and the world largely grasped that it would not spill beyond Ukraine, Russia signalled it might settle for the minimum that preserves its…
The Authority's financial crisis on the agenda of tomorrow's donor meeting in Oslo — The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) of donors to the Palestinian Authority meets in Oslo — fifteen members including the US, EU, UN, IMF, World Bank, Russia, Japan, Saudi Arabia,…