ABSTRACT
Social capital provides a safety net for improving people's chances in their day-to-day survival efforts, especially after Israel had constructed a Wall to separate Israel and East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The geopolitical context of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is very complex due to the different sources of political hegemony over its components. This chapter examines the role of social capital in the areas after the Wall was built and what this implies for social regeneration. It presents the political events that had determined the differences over time starting from the occupation in 1967, the Oslo Accords in 1993 up to the construction of the Separation Wall that Israel started to build in 2002. The chapter focuses on the role of social capital in coping with the spatial injustice whether inside or outside the Wall, highlighting the enormous challenges which the suburbs in the West Bank areas are facing.
