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Women, Peace and Security in Nepal: From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction book cover

1st Edition

Women, Peace and Security in Nepal From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Edited By Åshild Kolås Copyright 2017
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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This book sheds new light on the important but diverse roles of women in the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006), and the post-conflict reconstruction period (2006-2016). Engaging critically with the women, peace and security literature,  Women, Peace and Security in Nepal  questions the potential of peace processes to become a window of opportunity for women’s empowerment, while... Read more

Introduction: Women, Peace and Security in Review, Åshild Kolås and Torunn L. Tryggestad

1. The Road to Parliament: Women in Nepal’s Representative Assemblies, Bishnu Raj Upreti and Gitta Shrestha

2. Female Maoist Combatants During and After the People’s War, Lorina Sthapit and Philippe Doneys

3. Troubled Identities: Women Ex-combatants in Post-conflict Nepal, Amrita Pritam Gogoi

4. Nepali Women’s Mobilization for Peace: Transforming Activism into Policy Change, Vanessa Daurer

5. Does International Aid Help Women Peacebuilders in Nepal?, Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya and Jason Miklian

6. Women, Peace and Security: The Case of Nepal, Gitta Shrestha, Bishnu Raj Upreti and Åshild Kolås

Biography

Ashild Kolas is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.

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