THE "URBAN REDESIGN" OF JENIN REFUGEE CAMP: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND RATIONAL VIOLENCE.

The article looks at the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), focusing on its rebuilding efforts in the refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank following the Israeli military's 2002 incursion. The author notes that UNRWA has been an important, positive help to Palestinians for several decades and says for that reason the agency has often been undermined and criticized by pro-Israel politicians from other countries. She recounts the agency's 2002 work in Jenin and argues that while that work was important, its success was limited by the liberal humanitarian paradigm followed by the agency, which focuses on individual refugees rather than the community and which fails to recognize their rights and the systematic oppression they face.