Development, Women, and War
Feminist Perspectives
Paperback: 978 0 85598 487 8
Price: $29.95  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
December 2003 , 256 pp.,
Series: Development in Practice
* Surveys feminist approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution
* Covers conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe

Policy makers, practitioners, and academics discuss long-running conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. They highlight the shared experiences of women, and their potential to contribute both to war and to peace. Chapters survey feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution, and present concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. Underlying all the essays in this volume is a sense of the need to understand gendered power relations and the dynamics of social change.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Introduction: War and peace - what do women contribute?
The ‘sex war’ and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peace building
Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace
Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosovo
Kosovo: missed opportunities, lessons for the future
Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations
Palestinian women, violence, and the peace process
Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences
Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict
Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants?

Part Two: Introduction: Peace and reconstruction - agency and agencies
Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and solidarity
Aid: a mixed blessing
Women and war: protection through empowerment in El Salvador
Sustainable peace building in the South: experiences from Latin America
Training for peace; Making peace as development practice
Building bridges for peace
Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women
Mission impossible: gender, conflict, and Oxfam GB
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