Defying victimhood
Subtitle: women and post-conflict peacebuilding
By: edited by Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789280812015
Subjects: Women in development; Political activity; Women and war; Social conditions; Postwar reconstruction; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Figures and tables; title: Contributors; title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Forgone opportunities : the marginalization of women's contributions to post-conflict peacebuilding / Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva; title: Frameworks for understanding women as victims and peacebuilders / Lisa Schirch; title: From victimhood to empowerment : patterns and changes; title: Mass crimes and resilience of women : a cross-national perspective / Krishna Kumar; title: Victimization, empowerment and the impact of un peacekeeping missions on women and children : lessons from cambodia and timor-leste / Sumie Nakaya; title: Frontline peacebuilding : women's reconstruction initiatives in burundi / Rose M. Kadende-Kaiser; title: Women and children : essential partnership of survival and peace; title: Women and children in the post-cold war balkans : concerns and responses / Constantine P. Danopoulos, Konstantinos S. Skandalis, and Zlatko Isakovic; title: Emerging from poverty as champions of change : women and children in post-war tajikistan / Svetlana Sharipova and Hermine De Soto; title: Young mothers as agents of peacebuilding : lessons from an early childcare and development project in macedonia / Deborah Davis; title: Putting good intentions into practice : national and global efforts to right past wrongs; title: Gender and transitional justice experiences from south africa, rwanda and sierra leone / Lyn S. Graybill; title: Empowering women to promote peace and security from the global to the local : during and implementing un security council resolution 1325 / Ancil Adrian-Paul; title: Deconstructing victimhood: women in political and security institutions; title: State-building or survival in post-conflict and conflict situations? : a peacebuilding perspective on palestinian women's contributions to ending the israeli occupation / Vanessa Farr; title: Women's participation in political decision-making and recovery processes in post-conflict lebanon / Kari H. KaramÃ; title: Combating stereotypes : female security personnel in post-conflict contexts / Kristin Valasek; title: Conclusion; title: Defying victimhood : women as activists and peacebuilders / Anara Tabyshalieva and Albrecht Schnabel; title: Index.