Building Arafat's Police: The Politics of International Police Assistance in the Palestinian Territories After the Oslo Agreement

382 Pages·2006·1.17 MB·English

by  Brynjar Lia

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Building
Arafat’s Police
The Politics of International Police Assistance
in the Palestinian Territories
after the Oslo Agreement
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Building
Arafat’s Police
The Politics of International Police Assistance
in the Palestinian Territories
after the Oslo Agreement
BRYNJAR LIA
ITH ACA
P R E S S
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BUILDINGARAFAT’SPOLICE
The Politics of International Police Assistance in the
Palestinian Territories after the Oslo Agreement
Ithaca Press is an imprint of Garnet Publishing Limited
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Copyright © Brynjar Lia, 2007
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First Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-86372-305-6
ISBN-10: 0-86372-305-5
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TypesetbySamantha Barden
Jacket design byDavid Rose
Printed by Biddles, UK
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To my daughter Ane
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Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Boxes x
Glossary xi
Notes on Transliteration and Terms xv
Foreword and Acknowledgements xvii
1 Introduction 1
2 Donor Diplomacy and the Politics of Police Aid after Oslo 25
3 “We Began From Zero”: A Never-Ending Equipment
and Accommodation Crisis 89
4 In Search of Donor Mechanisms for Recurrent Police Costs 117
5 The Politics and Technicalities of Police Funding 141
6 Shifting Priorities, Dwindling Leadership: Police Aid
Coordination inGaza 195
7 A Missed Opportunity?The Failure of the Police
Observer Negotiations 221
8 A Marriage in Trouble? Donor–Palestinian Cooperation
in Police Training 245
9 The Politics of Anti-Terrorism Aid 287
10 Conclusion 317
Appendices 327
Bibliography and Sources 331
Index 353
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Tables
2.1 Basic data on the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
early–mid-1990s 26
2.2 The UN police training curriculum presented to
the PLO, May 1994 52
4.1 Donor funding of the Palestinian Police, summer 1994 118
5.1 Donor countries involved in police funding, 1994–5 147
5.2 Donor funding for police salaries/recurrent costs,
1994–5 148
5.3 The increase in Palestinian Police personnel, 1994–2000 149
5.4 The financing of PNA recurrent costs 161
6.1 Donor police assistance, 1994–7 209
8.1 The number of courses and trainees at donor
programmes, 1994–6 253
8.2 Donor-sponsored police training programmes before
deployment in 1993–4 254
8.3 Donor-sponsored police training programmes after
deployment in 1994 254
8.4 Donor-sponsored police training programmes, 1995 255
8.5 Donor-sponsored police training programmes, 1996 256
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