Peacebuilding
Women in International Perspective
Price: $39.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-47973-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24th July 2008
- Pages: 256
About the Book
This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation.
Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s peacebuilding in comparative international contexts. She critically interrogates accepted and entrenched dualisms that prevent meaningful reconciliation, while also examining the harm of othering and the importance of recognition, inclusion and tolerance. Drawing on feminist ethics, the book develops a politics of compassion that defends justice, equality and rights and the need to restore victims’ dignity. Complex issues of memory, truth, silence and redress are explored while new ideas on reconciliation and embracing difference emerge.
Many ideas challenge orthodox understandings of peace. The arguments developed here demonstrate how peacebuilding can be understood more broadly than current United Nations and orthodox usages so that women’s activities in conflict and transitional societies can be valued as participating in building sustainable peace with justice. Theoretically integrating peace and conflict studies, international relations, political theory and feminist ethics, this book focuses on the lessons to be learned from best practices of peacebuilding situated around the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Peacebuilding will be of particular interest to peace practitioners and to students and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international relations and gender politics.
Table of Contents
1. Peacebuilding as Process 2. Overcoming the Harm of Polarization 3. Recognition and Inclusion 4. Justice and Compassion 5. Memory and Truth 6. Reconciliation and Difference Conclusion: Peace with Justice and Security
About the Author(s)
Elisabeth Porter is Head of School of International Studies at the University of South Australia.Customers who bought Peacebuilding also bought:
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