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Women are active players in reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction processes. Moreover, sustainable peace depends on equal representation of all citizens in peacetime decision-making.This collection of articles explores conflict prevention through development projects in places where resources are scarce, and age-old agreements between groups come under strain. Other activities take place to arrest existing conflicts, by forming alliances across warring forces - the authors argue that women play a significant but underestimated role in this type of work. Most of their activities take place through grassroots organisations, due to their lack of access to formal decision-making. Traditional stereotypes of mothers and wives are invoked by many women to legitimise innovative conflict prevention strategies which men might otherwise question.Other articles here focus on women's efforts to build lasting peace through transforming old inequitable government structures into democratic institutions. International organisations and NGOs tend to limit their focus to women's welfare and protection in conflict and post-conflict situations, but they should focus as well on supporting women's attempts to gain access to leadership.
| ISBN | 085598533X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780855985332
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 216 | | Publisher | Oxfam Publishing | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxfam Professional | | Series ISSN | 0968-286 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oxfam Focus on Gender | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2004 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Library of Congress | 2005472269 | | Width (mm) | 189 | | DEWEY | 303.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 5 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate | | Pages | 112 | |
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| | | Editorial by Caroline Sweetman | | 2 | | | | Counter-revolutionary women : gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua by Julie Cupples | | 8 | | | | Reconstructing fragile lives : girls' social reintegration in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone by Susan McKay | | 19 | | | | Post-conflict programmes for women : lessons from the Kosovo women's initiative by Agnes Kalungu-Banda | | 31 | | | | Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction : from challenge to opportunity by Jasmine Whitbread | | 41 | | | | Promoting a gender-just peace : the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction by Jackie Kirk | | 50 | | | | Gender, participation, and post-conflict planning in Northern Sri Lanka by Simon Harris | | 60 | | | | The gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction : an analytical framework for policymakers by Elaine Zuckerman and Marcia Greenberg | | 70 | | | | Building capacity to resolve conflict in communities : Oxfam experience in Rwanda by Rosemarie McNairn | | 83 | | | | Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods : the Gujarat harmony project by Sara Ahmed | | 94 | | | | Resources by Leigh, Erin | | 103 |
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