Women Waging War and Peace: International Perspectives of Women's Roles in Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781441144935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str.

Sandra I Cheldelin

Opis

A collection of essays that explores the role of women as they participate in both conflict and peacemaking. It examines their behavior in conflict zones and their involvement in conflict - how it affects them, how they are active participants, and the initiatives they take in intervention, conflict resolution, and peace building.

Spis treści

Foreword by Andrea Bartoli
Editors' Biographies
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1    Overview and Introduction
    Sandra I. Cheldelin and Maneshka Eliatamby

2    Victims of Rape and Gendercide: All Wars
    Sandra I. Cheldelin

Section I:  Women Waging War
3    Searching for Emancipation: Eritrea, Nepal and Sri Lanka
    Maneshka Eliatamby

4    Dying for Identity: Chechnya and Sri Lanka
    Maneshka Eliatamby and Ekaterina Romanova

5    Fighting Young: Liberia and Sierra Leone
Patricia A. Maulden

Section II:  Women Intervening in War
6    Challenging Warfare: Sri Lanka
    Maneshka Eliatamby

7    Building a Peace Network
    Ambassador Swanee Hunt

Section III:  Women Waging Peace
8    Countering the Currents: Zimbabwe   
    Martha Mutisi

9    Engendering Recovery: Rwanda
    Peace Uwineza and Vanessa Noël Brown

10    Rebuilding the Gulf:  United States
    Terra Tolley

11    Conferencing Serious Crime: United States   
    Jennifer Langdon

Section IV:  Women Sustaining Peace
12    Promises of Justice: Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan
    Susan F. Hirsch

13    Engaging Legislation: Liberia and Chechnya
    Ekaterina Romanova and Erica Sewell

14    Challenging Patriarchy: Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey   
    Saira Yamin

15    Organizing the Disenfranchised: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    Yves-Reneé Jennings

Section V:  Conclusion

16    Challenging the Dominant Narrative   
    Sandra I. Cheldelin and Maneshka Eliatamby

Notes   
Index