On the frontlines: gender, war, and the post-conflict process
Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention has been devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is changing. Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings--the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Northern Ireland--international advocates for women's rights have focused bringing issues of sexual violence, discrimination…
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- Full title :On the frontlines : gender, war, and the post-conflict process / Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Dina Francesca Haynes, Naomi Cahn.
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Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention has been devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is changing. Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings--the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Northern Ireland--international advocates for women's rights have focused bringing issues of sexual violence, discrimination, and exclusion into peace-making processes. This book considers such policies in a range of cases and assesses the extent to which they have had success in improving women's lives. It argues that there has been too little success, and that this is in part a product of a focus on schematic policies like straightforward political incorporation rather than a broader and deeper attempt to alter the cultures and societies that are at the root of much of the violence and exclusions experienced by women.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (347 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780195396645, 0195396642, 9780195396652, 0195396650
- oclc:ocn778810888
- LC Classification:JZ6405.W66
- Dewey Decimal:305.42
Table of Contents
Before, during and after conflict, the connections for women -- Gender, and the forms, and experiences of conflict -- The significance of security : realizing peace -- Engendering international intervention -- Peacekeeping -- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs (DDR) -- International and local criminal accountability for gendered violence -- Remedies -- Law reform, constitutional design, and gender -- Gender and governance -- Development infrastructure : economics, health, and education.
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