Paper short abstract:

This paper analyzes nonviolent responses to colonial violence in Palestine in socio-environmental conflict processes. It explores the colonial dynamics of domination/subordination and appropriation/dispossession, together with indigenous resistance to them from the environmental justice approach.

Paper long abstract:

This paper analyzes nonviolent responses to colonial violence in Palestine in socio-environmental conflict processes. It explores the colonial dynamics of domination/subordination and appropriation/dispossession in the case of Palestine, together with the indigenous resistance to them from the environmental justice approach. First, this paper will map the main socio-environmental conflict trends in the region. Second, it will determine how colonial violence contributes to environmental injustice in Palestinian communities. Finally, it will present some indigenous nonviolent responses to the struggle against colonization, land dispossession, and displacement. This research is based on a theoretical framework informed by environmental justice, settler colonialism, and civil resistance studies. It focuses on socio-environmental conflicts mapped after the Oslo Agreements (1993) in the territory of historical Palestine (West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and Israel) dealing with resistance processes using nonviolent methods in their campaigns.