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Author Schnabel, Albrecht

Title Defying Victimhood : Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Published Tokyo : UNUP, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (405 pages)
Contents Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Forgone opportunities: The marginalization of women�s contributions to post-conflict peacebuilding -- 2 Frameworks for understanding women as victims and peacebuilders -- Part I From victimhood to empowerment: Patterns and changes -- 3 Mass crimes and resilience of women: A cross-national perspective -- 4 Victimization, empowerment and the impact of UN peacekeeping missions on women and children: Lessons from Cambodia and Timor-Leste
5 Frontline peacebuilding: Women�s reconstruction initiatives in BurundiPart II Women and children: Essential partnership of survival and peace -- 6 Women and children in the post-Cold War Balkans: Concerns and responses -- 7 Emerging from poverty as champions of change: Women and children in post-war Tajikistan -- 8 Young mothers as agents of peacebuilding: Lessons from anearly childcare and development project in Macedonia -- Part III Putting good intentions into practice: National and global efforts to right past wrongs
9 Gender and transitional justice: Experiences from South Africa, Rwanda and Sierra Leone10 Empowering women to promote peace and security: From the global to the local � Securing and implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 -- Part IV Deconstructing victimhood: Women in political and security institutions -- 12 Women�s participation in politicaldecision-making and recovery processes in post-conflict Lebanon -- 13 Combating stereotypes: Female security personnel in post-conflict contexts -- Conclusion -- 14 Defying victimhood: Women as activists and peacebuilders
Summary Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding are lost -- and sustainable peace is at risk -- when significant stakeholders in a society's future peace and conflict architecture are excluded from efforts to heal the wounds of war and build a new society and a new state. The contributors to this book draw on comparative case and country studies from post-conflict contexts in different parts of world to offer their insights into frameworks for understanding women as both victims and peacebuilders, to trace the road that women take from victimhood to empowerment and to highlight the essential partnerships between women and children and how they contribute to peace. The authors examine the roles of women in political and security institutions
Notes ""Index""
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Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Developing countries
Women and war -- Developing countries
Women in development -- Developing countries
Women -- Political activity -- Developing countries
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
Postwar reconstruction.
Women and war.
Women in development.
Women -- Political activity.
Women -- Social conditions.
Developing countries.
Form Electronic book
Author Tabyshalieva, Anara
ISBN 9789280812015
9280812017
9789210560566
9210560566