Peacebuilding Through Women's Community Development: Wee Women's Work in Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9783319855929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Amanda E. Donahoe

Opis

This book explores the gendered history of the Troubles, the rise of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and the role of community development as a new field in Northern Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles in Northern Ireland, tensions persist and society is still deeply divided. The book addresses the ways in which women navigate these tensions and contribute to peacebuilding through community development, described dismissively by many in Northern Ireland as the work of "wee women." Women navigate this gendered space to build peace strategically through "Wee Women's Work." The author focuses in particular on the Women's Sector and draws on feminist theory to examine the distinction between formal and informal politics.

Spis treści

1.  ​Introduction

Slow Peacebuilding Everyday

Plan of the Book

2. Benign Apartheid

A Tour of Belfast

Using the Language of Identity

Attitudes of Sectarian Divide

There Is No Peace Here

3. The Gendered Politics of Violence

Gender in Northern Ireland

Troubles: The Gendered Past

Security Practices

Costs of Violence

4. The Coalition and the Peace Process

Building a Coalition

Building a Peace

Participation and Political Activity

5. The Development of Community Development

Civil Society

Introducing Community Relations

A Framework

Community Building

Community Development

Representative vs. Participatory Politics

6. Wee Women’s Work

Women’s Groups and Community Development

Community Development as Peacebuilding

Women’s Centres

The Work of the Women’s Sector

Peacebuilding

When Women Come Together…

7. Politics and Constraint

The Big Lads

From Para-Military to Para-Community Worker

Women in Politics

Parties

8. Looking Outward

The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Brexit

9. Conclusion

O autorze

Amanda E. Donahoe is Lecturer of Peace and Justice Studies at Tufts University, USA. She teaches on issues of political identity, political violence, peace, and conflict resolution.