Title
Palestinian Opinion on Peace: Analysis of Survey Data from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Social Science
First Advisor
Lindsay Benstead
Subjects
Palestinian Arabs -- Attitudes, Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-, Palestinian Arabs -- Government policy -- Israel, Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government
DOI
10.15760/honors.255
Abstract
There have been many articles on the influence of public opinion on Palestinian peace with Israel, but none have been written using data since the early 2000s. This gap is important because many Israeli and Palestinian citizens have increasingly lost hope in the Oslo peace process. This article uses data from 2006 to 2012 to analyze changes in Palestinian support for peace with Israel. Variables include political affiliation, gender, religiosity, economic situation, and area of residence. The Arab Barometer and the Palestinian Center originally gathered all of the data for Policy and Survey Research used in this paper. A binomial logistic regression was used to measure the impact of the listed variables over a period of six years. Overall, Palestinian support decreased from 2006 to 2012. All variables but one were found to hold statistical significance towards the decrease in support.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17325
Recommended Citation
Brink, Kaylee G., "Palestinian Opinion on Peace: Analysis of Survey Data from the Occupied Palestinian Territories" (2016). University Honors Theses. Paper 258.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/honorstheses/258
10.15760/honors.255
Comments
An undergraduate honors thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in University Honors and Social Science