Description
The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs, transitional justice mechanisms, reconciliation measures, and legal and political reforms, which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently. By drawing on a strong theoretical framework and a number of cases, this volume provides important insight into questions pertaining to the end of conflict and the challenges inherent in the post-conflict transition period that are relevant to students and practitioners alike.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Forward
J. Ann Tickner
Introduction
Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams
Part I: Theory and Framework
Chapter 1: Women Living in a Gendered World
Laura Sjoberg
Chapter 2: The Aftermath of War: Considering Gender in the Process of Disarmament, Demilitarization and Reintegration
Fionnuala Ni Aolain
Chapter 3: Imagined Peace, Gender Relations and Post-Conflict Transformation: Anti-colonial and post-Cold War Conflicts
Jane L. Parpart
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 4: The Gender Politics of Negotiating and Renegotiating the Peace in Northern Ireland Fidelma Ashe and Carmel Roulston
Chapter 5: Bosnia, Women, and Gender in a post-Dayton World
Kristen P. Williams
Chapter 6: Perpetuating a Gendered Peace? Exploring Gender Mainstreaming in Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DDRR) in Liberia
Helen S.A. Basini
Chapter 7: Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration and the Poetics of Slavery in Sierra Leone
Megan H. MacKenzie
Chapter 8: Women, Apartheid and the TRC: The Impact of Apartheid on Women in South Africa, Plus 20 Years
Joyce P. Kaufman
Chapter 9: Engendering Peace: Divergent Post-Conflict Processes for Women in Guatemala and El Salvador
Kara Ellerby
Part III: Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future
Chapter 10: Conclusions
Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams
Bibliography
Index
