| Palestinian girls living in war zones outperform boys academically Palestinian girls focus on studying and writing, and are generally found to do better at school than boys during war time, suggest Queen’s University researchers. “War and violence limit opportunities for girls,” says Hana Saab, research associate with the university’s Social Program Evaluation Group’s (SPEG) Palestinian youth project. But they suffer the consequences much differently than boys. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the research was conducted through a partnership between Birzeit and Queen’s Universities. Carried out in the West Bank’s occupied Palestinian territory, findings suggest that gender roles have a significant impact on how girls deal with the effects of living in contexts of prolonged conflict and violence. Current research also suggests that the different needs of both sexes should be identified when designing approaches for working with Palestinian girls and boys with psycho-social and emotional health needs due to war zone conflict. “Psycho-social mental health interventions have to be designed in ways that address gender differences and can’t follow a biomedical model where everyone is treated in the same manner,” says Ms Saab, a doctoral candidate in Education. She suggests that girls are more social than boys, which means peer-to-peer support and group counselling are more effective in addressing psycho-social and emotional health issues in girls. SPEG is currently conducting a pilot project in the West Bank to test these forms of treatment. “Working with community-based rehabilitation centres, our research groups hope to develop an approach for dealing with mental health issues that are sensitive to cultural values and gender roles,” says Ms Saab. The research consisted of two phases, which surveyed over 3400 girls and boys in grades 10 and 11. The first phase highlighted a need to address gender differences in the way youth respond to trauma, and how the social conditions surrounding them changed in response to conflict and violence. Ms Saab was part of a panel discussion earlier this week at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York. As part of the discussion of how girls survive in situations of violence and armed conflict, her contribution was a discussion of gender issues compiled by SPEG’s research among adolescents in the West Bank. She also participated in a panel discussion in Ottawa put on by IDRC and The Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee. |
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I still can’t understand these bueracratic pencil necked academics seeing the world strictly through a Western lens.
Hey, IDRC geeks, the Phakestinians are living exactly the way they (and the rest of the Arab world) wants, steeling themselves to fight Israel to the death, to the last 10 year old suicide bomber. At any time, they could give up radical blood thirsty Islam and embrace Israeli democracy and enjoy the fruits of western capitalism INSIDE Israel.
But they don’t want what you enjoy everyday of your soft life. Remember the phrase “you love Coca-Cola, we love death”? Nah, never heard of it?
When will you get that through your thick heads?
Never. Not even when a constitutionally protected Jihadi splodes in front of your ugly face.
Rock-Throwing 101 is likely one of the courses Palestinian boys are required to take…
Isn’t it amazing what a few Left leaning academics can discover with a blank check from the government?
Tax cut now please. Big one. Really, really big.
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Wow. I’m, uh, stunned. This is either a brilliant parody of pointless academic wanking by a frighteningly talented satirist or academic wanking taken to a height no one previously suspected or wanted. “War and violence limit opportunities for girls.” Uh-huh. “Psycho-social mental health interventions have to be designed in ways that address gender differences….” Eh? “Ms Saab was part of a panel discussion… at the UN Commission on the Status of Women….” Well, they were bound to be in here somewhere. And I guess there’d have to be a Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group subdivision of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee. Couldn’t get by without that.
I really miss Kingsley Amis on days like this. Classic. Print and save.
It’s important to treat symptoms, yes, but focussing on the symptoms without addressing the cause isn’t the way to go; for the symptoms and suffering will only continue as long as the cause remains in place as is.
The cause? Islam; the Koran. It all stems from verses in the Koran and those who cite the verses to justify all the terrible, evil stuff they do to millions and millions of people who can be labelled “Muslims”, as well as millions and millions of people who can’t.
What is needed to stop the war in and around Judea and Samaria is a serious reformation of Islam itself. A reformation that eradicates the hatred, the supremacism, the imperialism… the jihad and all that. And Sharia Law must also be dealt with, if not abolished, in accordance with “progressiveness” and human rights. Surely this is a supportable course of action? How could any good person not support a reformation of something that has badness within to get rid of the badness so as to put an end to the suffering of millions of people worldwide, suffering caused via the Koranically-inspired deprivation of human rights, via terrorism, jihad/war, etc…?
There is actually a glimmer of hope. I’m seeing evidence of a growing movement towards reformation of Islam… by Muslims & ex-Muslims themselves. It’s happening… too bad most are unaware of it, as it seems to be considered by the left and the MSM as politically incorrect/offensive to Muslims, so it’s pretty much taboo, still.
But a reformation for the purpose of exorcising the root causes of the suffering of millions of human beings is indeed preferable to nuclear armageddon, isn’t it?
How can any good person not support a reformation of Islam?
sarge here . love them KKKanukistani!
Beautiful job Kate. I couldn’t help but laugh as I read down the page, reading all these very serious and oh-so complex reasons for the existence of a gender gap. Meanwhile, opposite the windbag prose, picture after picture of young boys receiving a decidedly different form of education.
Maybe they should consider ending the practice of grooming young boys to become walking antipersonal devices? Bet that solves the gender gap.
Oh, and the haughty pretentiousness of the “researchers” wasn’t lost on me.
It’s typical of leftist deniers of reality. They make up artsy-fartsy language and speak it with phony, yet patronizing, imposing, authority, denouncing and ridiculing those who beg to differ or offer facts to counter the dogmae provided.
They want to focus on the little stuff to be able to say they’re “dealing with the problem” while they really aren’t. Typical leftists… treating the symptom but ignoring the cause.
It’s widely known that there are more boys than girls at the very top and bottom of the intellectual scale and more girls throughout the top and mid. In other words girls are more likely to do better than boys on average, but the very pinnacle is likely to be held by boys. Why should Palestinians be any different?
“The world will end tomorrow. Women and children hardest hit.”
Rock-Throwing 101 is likely one of the courses Palestinian boys are required to take…
Posted by: Soccermom
It must not be counted in their final grades some kind of option.
there must have been a grant from the govt for that exercise in stupidity…glad to see that Mr. Harper slashed the $$$ going to “status of women” or the “research” would have taken much much much longer ….what a waste of time…like we care
The gender achievement gap will be moot if a Taliban-type government takes over the Gaza and West Bank. Then they will prohibit girls from attending school, like they did in Afganistan.
They are and will remain the best rock/stone lobbers
in the world.
They could win an Olympic medal if there were an event for it.
Frankly they’re a tiresome race of people, indoctrinated/brainwashed right out of their bloody
minds.
The only interest we should have in them is keeping them to hell out of our Country and aiding the State
of Israel when necessary.
a bizarre study for sure. here is another , now the sunrises are being aided by global warming , or they are at least going to study it.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/nu-sun.html
does make you worry about using native oral history as backup- if they think they can remember the sun rising in different spots mapping land claims is going to be really wild.
Education is power. These women are working harder because they know success means money and money means freedom.
I think the empty and useless sophistry of these academic descriptions of ‘girls doing well, boys not doing well’ is comparable to the one-sided dogmatic blindness of doug’s long post against Palestinians.
Well, ET, I would side with Doug. How is it “dogmatic blindness” if it’s the truth?
Should we consider the lies of the Muslims who want to get rid of Israel simply because Islam is interpreted as requiring that all Muslims must do their part to “push Israel into the sea”? You may if you want. But I’ve heard it all already. And I rule against the Muslims as they’re really simply supremacistic and imperialistic. Israel is not. Israel just wants to be left in peace by her neighbors. Gaining Judea and Samaria via self-defence is perfectly valid. What’s illegal is the jihadists’ having gotten Israel to pull out of Samaria (Gaza). Not only is their moving into Samaria wrong, so is their using it as a military base for launching attacks on Israel.
Israel is entitled to keep Judea and Samaria. And the Islamic nations in the M.E. are morally required to accept their own people, rather than force them to stay there and become weapons of war themselves… in a war of Islamic imperialism.
In fact, Israel isn’t required, as far as I’m concerned, to allow any “return” of the so-called “refugees”, who really belong in the Islamic nations who refused to accept them.
In short, as far as I’m concerned, the “Palestinians” gave up their right to have their side heard long ago.
Bottom line: the “Palestinians” must completely end the jihadism and the hate propaganda. And the imperialism. Or else…
Israel doesn’t have to put up with this forever. The world must come to accept this fact.
It can’t go on forever. The “Palestinians” must stop, period, or…
I’m sure you’ll beg to differ. That’s ok with me. But I’ll firmly stand by my position.
Thanks to Doug for posting LGF’s troll hammer here. It’s the second funniest thing I’ve read today and I’m going to print and save it, too.
“our research groups hope to develop an approach for dealing with mental health issues that are sensitive to cultural values and gender roles”
So, they are saying, when the kids spout “Jews are pigs” as they were taught in school, we have to be sensitive to these cultural values.
When the boys are given grenade launchers and the girls are taught how to be suicide bombers, we need to be sensitive to these different gender roles.
Hey SF, come on now. The Palestinians are quite progressive with women’s rights. Time was when suicide bombing was a boys-only sport.
I imagine a bullet to the head lowers your IQ somewhat 😉
Palestinian women can’t do well, not when your spouse is a male in a rabidly dysfunctional culture. After a couple beatings for insolence or an undercooked meal, all of your academic endeavors mean nothing. You could have a PhD in physics and you are reduced to a whimpering abused dog if Mr. Macho takes offense with you.
Islam is a vicious anti-human cult.
Moral of the story:
Palestinians: bad
Israel: good
We ve hear this a gazillion times on this board. Palestinians are bad because either they are Arab or Islamic. Debating their humanity, at least on this board, is an exercise in futility. There is no empathy for the human beings involved. The hardships they face are legitimate. Or perhaps they arent. Subhumans dont deserve to live as equals, do they?
Lets turn our attention to the Christians then. Yes, Israel was once home to Christians,too. Look at how they re treated. Monks get threatening phonecalls. Tombs are desecrated. Archaelogical sites are reburied. Why? To prove that Israel was a Jewish nation all along. Christianity has virtually been wiped out from a region that Christian soldiers once fought for. Monasteries unearthed by archeologists are reburried to make way for highways. Christianity has disappeared from one of its holiest sites to allow Israel to rewrite its history.
But we sit on the bylines, perhaps because of the collective guilt of Christianitys numerous pogroms against the jews.
I remember reading about well built in what was once a Christian Palestinian village. The well is allegedly built by an Israeli rebel during the uprising of 66 AD. Well thats what the brochure says. A Palestinian Christian claims otherwise – apparently he built it with his own hands.
But of course, the Israelis are always right. Spare a thought for the Christian Palestinians even if you want nothing but misery for the Muslim ones. Yes there are Christian militants too – Fatah recruits Christians. And no, I dont think they draw their ideology from the Koran. They have legitimate grievances. Sometimes, when you ve got precious little to lose, it is tempting for one to pick up the sword. Israel may be a democracy, but go ask the Christians of the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem about how they are treated. There is a reason the number of Christians are dwindling in Israel, despite being Israeli citizens. It is because they are second-class citizens. Democracies arent supposed to have second class citizens.
But hey, its Israel. They are good, right?
“She also participated in a panel discussion in Ottawa put on by IDRC and The Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee.”
…ummm…too many sillybulls for me…being a male.
Back under your bridge, Jeremiah. Palestinians blow up buses with little kids in ’em, on purpose. Israelis don’t. Pretty much covers it for me, troll boy.
Okay, we’ve got the low test scores of Palestinian boys covered, … now how come you’re so stupid Kate?
Re: Palestinians blow up buses with little kids in ’em, on purpose. Israelis don’t. Pretty much covers it for me, troll boy.
Too bad that deliberate murdering of civilians has actually been Israeli practice. That probably puts a damper on your argument.
Believe whatever you want to though. Whenever KKKate gets faced with an ironclad counterargument, she tends to delete them. Like a coward.
Where’s that troll hammer? Oh yeah, see comment by Doug above. Kate’s pretty easy going Thwap, I’d have deleted your sorry troll butt immediately.
Still, you do have one tiny point in there thwap. The Israeli army does indeed whack Pali bomb makers, terror bosses, katusha rocket battery minders and all manner of other mental cases, and since these people are -civilian- terrorists there is some truth to your assertion. Sort of.
Think for a millisecond (if you can) of what we Canadians would do to guys who launched rockets into one of our towns. How long would they last, hm? As long as the Israelis have let the Palies last? I think not.
[Deleted. There is an unwritten rule here about directing gratuitous insults at your host. Do it again, and you’re gone. – ED]
Wow, thwap: Lies, name calling and strawmen. Nice lefty hat trick there!
The Palestinian people support terror attacks and suicide bombings by a large margin in favour. The Palestinian authority refuses to accept Israel’s right to exist. Palestinians use child bombers in order to escape detection.
Can you argue any of these facts? If so, let’s see the details. The best you got in defense are a few propaganda tapes of Israeli attacks starring green helmet guy.
Keep trying though. One day you and Jeremiah will wipe those pesky Jews off the face of the earth. Keep reaching for those stars, thwap!
Who is that hooded goon anyway why dont they allow their face to be seen? their a coward
Where can I obtain financial statements for these “research” projects?? I’m curious how much goes towards vegan meals and imported wine.
Just looking for good value for LOTS of dollars spent.