Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

ISBN-13: 9780415874489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 342 str.

Donna Pankhurst

Opis

This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. Such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of a war often fails to bring freedom from sexual violence for many women. Within such a context, efforts on the part of women, and those made on their behalf, to hold to account those who commit crimes against them, and to access their rights are difficult to make, are often dangerous, and are also often deployed with little effect. Gendered Peace explores international contexts, and a variety of local ones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress. The volume highlights the surprising success in the development of international legal advances for women, but contrasts this with the actual experience of women in cases from Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Peru, Central America and the Balkans.'

Spis treści

Foreword Thandika Mkandawire  1. Introduction Donna Pankhurst  2. Gendering International Justice Martha Walsh  3. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Gender Justice Alessandra Dal Secco  4. 'Your Justice is too Slow': Will the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Fail Rwanda’s Rape Victims? Binaifer Nowrojee  5. Gender Injustice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Rashida Manjoo  6. The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Old Dilemmas or New Challenges? Deniz Kandiyoti  7. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and After Meghna Guhathakurta  8. Marrying Your Rapist Jelke Boesten  9. Joining Forces for Democratic Governance Ilja A. Luciak  10. Rada Drezgic Dubravka Žarkov, Gendered War, Gendered Peace Tanja Djuric-Kuzmanovic  11. Post-War Backlash Violence Against Women Donna Pankhurst

O autorze

Donna Pankhurst is Professor of Peacebuilding and Development at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. In recent years she has researched in Africa on conflict, post- conflict settlements, and peacebuilding, particularly with a focus on gender issues. Recent publications include: ‘Sex Wars and Other Wars. Towards a Feminist Approach to Peacebuilding’ in Development and Practice , 13, 2 & 3, 154-177, 2003; ‘Women and Politics in Africa: The Case of Uganda’, Parliamentary Affairs, 55, 1, 2002: 119-128; ‘Unravelling Reconciliation and Justice? Land and the Potential for Conflict in Namibia’ in Peace and Change, 25, 2, 2000: 239-254; ‘Issues of Justice and Reconciliation in Complex Political Emergencies', Third World Quarterly, 20, 1, 1999: 239-256.