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SERIES: Development in Practice Readers
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EDITED BY: Haleh Afshar Deborah Eade

SERIES: Development in Practice Readers
ISBN-10: 0855984872 
ISBN-13: 9780855984878  STOCK CODE: 00254873
AVAILABILITY: In Print   PUBLISHER: Oxfam GB
FORMAT: Paperback (pp: 256)   216 x 138mm   PUBLISHED: 01 Nov 2003
READERSHIP:  Postgraduate, Activists and Campaigners, Professional and Practitioners, Undergraduate,
PRICE:  £14.95 (inc. VAT)  

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DESCRIPTION

The shared experiences of women and their potential to contribute both to wat and particularly to peace, are highlighted in this discussion of the long-running conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Policy makers, practitioners, and academics consider why women's concerns have yet to be placed at the forefront of both analysis and practical outcomes. This selection of essays presents an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution, and puts forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. Contributors argue for the need to move beyond the myriad projects that involve women to consider the factors that contribute to the relatively poor overall impact of such projects - an outcome that often results from a failure to understand the underlying gendered power relations and the dynamics of social change.


CONTENTS
Preface  
Part 1
Introduction: War and peace – what do women
contribute?

Haleh Afshar

The ‘sex war’ and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peace building
Donna Pankhurst 

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace
Haleh Afshar 

Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosova
Chris Corrin 

Kosovo: missed opportunities, lessons for the future
Lesley Abdela 

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations
Angela Mackay 

Palestinian women, violence, and the peace process
Maria Holt 

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences
Ann Jordan 

Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict
Judy El-Bushra 

Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants?
Elaheh Rostami Povey

Part 2
Introduction: Peace and reconstruction – agency and agencies
Deborah Eade 

Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and solidarity
Hugo Slim 

Aid: a mixed blessing
Mary B. Anderson

Women and war: protection through empowerment in El Salvador
Martha Thompson and Deborah Eade
 
Sustainable peace building in the South: experiences from Latin America
Jenny Pearce 

Training for peace
Glenda Caine 

Making peace as development practice
Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Gila Svirsky

Building bridges for peace
Rola Hamed 

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women
Myriam Gervais 

Mission impossible: gender, conflict, and Oxfam GB
Suzanne Williams 

Resources
Index

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Development and Humanitarianism: Practical Issues
Development with Women


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