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Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation book cover

1st Edition

Gendered Peace Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

Edited By Donna Pankhurst Copyright 2008
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as ‘post-conflict’ or ‘post-war’. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women,... Read more

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Thandika Mkandawire, Director, UNRISD

1 Donna Pankhurst

Introduction: Gendered War and Peace

2. Martha Walsh

Gendering International Justice: Progress and Pitfalls at International Criminal

Tribunals

3. Alessandra Dal Secco

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Gender Justice

4. Binaifer Nowrojee

"Your justice is too slow." Will the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Fail Rwanda’s Rape Victims?

5. Rashida Manjoo

Gender Injustice and The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

6. Deniz Kandiyoti

The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Old Dilemmas or New Challenges?

7. Meghna Guhathakurta

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and After: Gendered Dimensions of Peace

8. Jelke Boesten

Marrying Your Rapist: Domesticated War Crimes in Peru

9. Ilja A. Luciak

Joining Forces for Democratic Governance: Women’s Alliance-Building for Post-War Reconstruction in Central America

10. Tanja Djuric-Kuzmanovic, Rada Drezgic Dubravka Žarkov

Gendered War, Gendered Peace: Violent Conflicts in The Balkans and its Consequences

11. Donna Pankhurst

Post-War Backlash Violence Against Women: What Can ‘Masculinity’ Explain?

Contributors

Index

Biography

Donna Pankhurst is Professor of Peacebuilding and Development at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. In recent years she has researched in Africa on conflict, post- conflict settlements, and peacebuilding, particularly with a focus on gender issues. Recent publications include: ‘Sex Wars and Other Wars. Towards a Feminist Approach to Peacebuilding’ in Development and Practice , 13, 2 & 3, 154-177, 2003; ‘Women and Politics in Africa: The Case of Uganda’, Parliamentary Affairs, 55, 1, 2002: 119-128; ‘Unravelling Reconciliation and Justice? Land and the Potential for Conflict in Namibia’ in Peace and Change, 25, 2, 2000: 239-254; ‘Issues of Justice and Reconciliation in Complex Political Emergencies', Third World Quarterly, 20, 1, 1999: 239-256.

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