Contents; Contributors; Preface (PDF 137k)
PART ONE
Introduction: War and peace: what do women contribute? (PDF 111k)
Haleh Afshar
The 'sex war' and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peace building (PDF 249k)
Donna Pankhurst
Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace (PDF 160k)
Haleh Afshar
Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosova (PDF 227k)
Chris Corrin
Kosovo: missed opportunities, lessons for the future (PDF 168k)
Lesley Abdela
Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations (PDF 130k)
Angela Mackay
Palestinian women, violence, and the peace process (PDF 186k)
Maria Holt
Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences (PDF 185k)
Ann Jordan
Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict (PDF 194k)
Judy El-Bushra
Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants? (PDF 111k)
Elaheh Rostami Povey
PART TWO
Introduction: Peace and reconstruction: agency and agencies (PDF format, 111k)
Deborah Eade
Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and solidarity (PDF 162k)
Hugo Slim
Aid: a mixed blessing (PDF 149k)
Mary B. Anderson
Women and war: protection through empowerment in El Salvador (PDF 186k)
Martha Thompson and Deborah Eade
Sustainable peace building in the South: experiences from Latin America (PDF 228k)
Jenny Pearce
Training for Peace (PDF 116k)
Glenda Caine
Making peace as development practice (PDF 196k)
Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Gila Svirsky
Building bridges for peace (PDF 124k)
Rola Hamed
Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women (PDF 171k)
Myriam Gervais
Mission impossible: gender, conflict, and Oxfam GB (PDF 200k)
Suzanne Williams
Resources (PDF 163k)
Index (PDF 107k)
Development, Women and War: Feminist Perspectives
Edited and introduced by Haleh Afshar and Deborah Eade
Policy makers, practitioners, and academics discuss long-running conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe and highlight the shared experiences of women, and their potential to contribute both to war and particularly to peace. They consider why women’s concerns have yet to be placed at the forefront of both analysis and practical outcomes, present an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution, and put forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. They 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.
Haleh Afshar is Professor of Politics at the University of York.
© Oxfam GB 2004.
ISBN 0 85598 487 2
All rights reserved.
‘This publication is as close yet to any examination of the flaws in peace-making processes which exclude the involvement of more than half the world‘s population. It should be required reading by all men and women in Defence Departments worldwide’.
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