Authors
Haleh Afshar is Professor of Politics at the University of York
Deborah Eade is Editor of the international journal Development in Practice and has worked for several development NGOs.
Contents
Contents; Contributors; Preface (PDF 137K)
Part One
Introduction: War and peace – what do women
contribute? - Haleh Afshar (PDF 111K)
The ‘sex war’ and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peace building - Donna Pankhurst
(PDF 249K)
Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace - Haleh Afshar (PDF 160K)
Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosova - Chris Corrin (PDF 227K)
Kosovo: missed opportunities, lessons for the
future - Lesley Abdela (PDF 168K)
Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations - Angela Mackay (PDF 130K)
Palestinian women, violence, and the peace
process - Maria Holt (PDF 186K)
Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences - Ann Jordan (PDF 185K)
Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict - Judy El-Bushra (PDF 194K)
Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants? - Elaheh Rostami Povey
(PDF 180K)
Part Two
Introduction: Peace and reconstruction – agency and agencies - Deborah Eade (PDF 111K)
Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and solidarity - Hugo Slim (PDF162K)
Aid: a mixed blessing - Mary B. Anderson (PDF 149K)
Women and war: protection through empowerment in El Salvador - Martha Thompson and Deborah Eade
(PDF 186K)
Sustainable peace building in the South: experiences from Latin America - Jenny Pearce (PDF 228K)
Training for peace - Glenda Caine (PDF 116K)
Making peace as development practice - Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Gila Svirsky (PDF 196K)
Building bridges for peace - Rola Hamed (PDF 124K)
Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women - Myriam Gervais (PDF 171K)
Mission impossible: gender, conflict, and Oxfam GB - Suzanne Williams (PDF 200 K)
Resources (PDF 163K)
Index (PDF 107K)
Related links
Please note, inclusion of these links does not imply that Oxfam agrees with or endorses statements made or opinions expressed in external websites.
- ABANTU for Development
ABANTU’s programme on Gender and Conflict aims to reduce the consequences of conflict for women by contributing to gender-sensitive peacekeeping and peace-building efforts.
- Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) This organisation’s websites carries information about its activities and publications, and details on courses at the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Popular University, described by the Madres as a university ‘of struggle and resistance’.
- Black Sash works for the protection of human rights in South Africa through non-violent individual and collective action.
- The Bridge: Jewish and Arab Women for Peace in the Middle East
- DAW: United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
- Human Rights Watch (HRW), Women’s Rights Division
- International Alert’s Gender and Peacebuilding Programme focuses on how international and national commitements to women, peace, and security can be implemented, and how women can further contribute to peace processes.
- International Committee of the Red Cross, Women and War Project addresses issues affecting women in war zones and other conflict areas.
- The International Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Women Peacemakers Program
- Jerusalem Link is a partnership between Bat Shalom, Israel’s national women’s peace organisation, and the Jerusalem Center for Women, a Palestinian women’s organisation
- Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation supports women in regions affected by war and armed conflict, as well as in building peace. It is active in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, with a main focus on women’s health issues and capacity building.
- LAS DIGNAS is a Salvadoran NGO working with women ex-combatants to rebuild women’s lives in post-conflict El Salvador.
- Life and Peace Institute This international and ecumenical centre for peace research and action has an extensive publishing division.
- MADRE is an international women’s human rights organisation that works with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and the USA.
- Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad is an organisation dedicated to pacifism, disarmament, the defence of human rights, and humanitarian assistance, with operations mostly in the Balkans, Central and South America, the Near East, and Northern Africa.
- International Peace Research Institute is an independent research body that publishes on a range of peace-related issues, with a particular focus on civil war, small arms, and mine-affected communities.
- UNIFEM’s Women, Peace and Security programme
- Women and the EZLN This website provides articles and other useful documents on the role of women in the rebellion in Chiapas and on their ongoing liberation struggle.
- Women in Black is an international peace network that grew out of silent vigils started in Israel in 1988 by women protesting the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
- Women Waging Peace
- Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children is an independent affiliate of the International Rescue Committee set up to defend the rights of refugee women, children, and adolescents.
- Women’s Human Rights Network - a project of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, WHRnet aims to provide information and analysis in English, French, and Spanish.
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom has a comprehensive web portal
- Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
- Women’s Peacepower Foundation, Inc offers awards to women and girls who are involved in grassroots projects to bring peace to (or end violence in) the everyday lives of women and their families.
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