Windows of Opportunity
Subtitle: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780190239534
Subjects: Women and peace; Women's rights; Macedonia, social conditions; Northern ireland, social conditions
Description: 'Windows of Opportunity' illustrates how women's advocacy groups seize peace negotiations to reconfigure their role in the state. Women's groups overcome many challenges to gain access to peace talks and ensure women's rights are included in peace agreements. They do this by forming advocacy groups based on a gender-based identity to transcend the divisions of the conflict, framing the peace negotiations as forums where their interests are at stake, and, when necessary, working with transnational feminist allies.