Witness policies: an ethnographic analysis of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
Palestine/Israel. Humanitarian government. Cartography of the Occupation. Witness policies.
This dissertation is an ethnographic analysis of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), a program created in 2002 by the European religious organization World Council of Churches (WCC). It addresses a way in which, from what would have been “the Jerusalem call from the Christian churches of the world” to go to the Holy Land “to know the living stones” (Palestinian Christians), the WCC/EAPPI becomes part of a complex of humanitarian associations in the occupied West Bank. To this end, it operates under the constant dispatch of international volunteers under the official name of “Ecumenical Accompaniers” to act as international human rights observers/monitors in the occupied territories. Thus, the dissertation analyzes, from former Brazilian participants, the discursive and non-discursive devices mobilized by the WCC/EAPPI in the production of a humanitarian policy and a testimony policy and about the Occupation