Human rights as a tool for conf lict transformation: the cases of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and local unarmed popular resistance

This chapter, like others presented in this volume, responds to the disappointing outcomes of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The Oslo Accords were initially perceived as a dramatic breakthrough and were arguably designed to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Instead, they have contributed to a deepening of the occupation, the increased securitization of Israeli and Palestinian political cultures, growing inequality between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, and the continuing dispossession of Palestinian refugees.