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

TitleGendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsPankhurst, Donna
Corporate AuthorsUnited Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Number of Pages341
PublisherRoutledge
CityNew York
Abstract

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'. However, such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of a war often fails to bring freedom from sexual violence for many women. Within such a context, efforts on the part of women, and those made on their behalf, to hold to account those who commit crimes against them, and to access their rights are difficult to make, are often dangerous, and are also often deployed with little effect. Gendered Peace explores international contexts, and a variety of local ones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress. The volume highlights the surprising success in the development of international legal advances for women, but contrasts this with the actual experience of women in cases from Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Peru, Central America and the Balkans.

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