Acknowledgments
This project has incurred many debts over the years. It would not have been
possible without funding from the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral
Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (#1433642), the American
Institute for Yemeni Studies’ Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, several Kugelman
Citizen Peacebuilding Research Fellowships, the Center for Global Peace and
Conflict Studies’ Research Award, funding from the Center for the Study of
Democracy and the Department of Sociology at University of California, Irvine
(UCI), and a Type I Faculty Research Grant from the University of Pittsburgh.
I am especially grateful to all of the members of UCI’s Center for Citizen
Peacebuilding – and especially Larry and Dulcie Kugelman – for their exemplary enthusiasm for graduate student research. Parts of this book have
appeared previously in Social Forces (Moss 2020) and Social Problems (Moss
2016b). I thank the editors at Oxford University Press for permission to reprint
parts of these articles here.
I do not have the words to adequately thank the activists and organizers who
spent many precious hours speaking with me about their experiences. Many
went out of their way to facilitate my fieldwork, host me in their homes, share
meals, and help me find my way, literally and figuratively. Special thanks are
due (in no particular order) to Rabyaah Althaibani and her family, Ibrahim Al
Qataby, Mazen Obaid, Safa Mubgar and the girls, Adel Aulaqi, Shaima Saif,
the Al-Hakimi family, the Mashjari family, Ilham Ali, Khaled Ahmed, Ayat
Mneina, Abdallah Omeish, Rihab Elhaj, Walid Raghei and his parents, and
Gihan Badi and her family for their gracious assistance and overwhelming
hospitality. I certainly would not have made it to Libya and back, given the
timing of my trip after the 2013 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi,
without Abdallah, Rihab, and Walid. Thanks also to the many organizers
I met along the way who invited and welcomed me to their events.
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