Contexts of Violence in the Arab Region

In 2022, the ACSS formed the Contexts of Violence in the Arab Region Working Group to investigate the new questions that erupted after the Arab uprisings and the Covid 19 attack about states and types of violence in the Arab region. The latter range between protracted conflicts and open dissent on one hand, and claims of ‘stability’ and stalemates on the other. The working group is mainly concerned with the study of deeply structural and enduring types of violence associated with sectarianism, gender inequalities, class divisions, displacement and increasing securitization and militarization of all aspects of life. It focuses on regional and country perspectives on the strategies employed by states, societies and actors to navigate these predicaments in the Arab region. The contexts of violence researched by the working group include: Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Tunisia.