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

by Pankhurst; Donna

• ISBN13: 9780415956482
• ISBN10: 041595648X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume makes a contribution 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?. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. 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 localones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress.

Table of Contents

Boxed Text and Tables	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: Gendered War and Peace	p. 1
Gendering International Justice: Progress and Pitfalls at International Criminal Tribunals	p. 31
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Gender Justice	p. 65
"Your Justice Is Too Slow": Will the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Fail Rwanda's Rape Victims?	p. 107
Gender Injustice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission	p. 137
The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Old Dilemmas or New Challenges?	p. 155
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and After: Gendered Dimensions of Peace	p. 187
Marrying Your Rapist: Domesticated War Crimes in Peru	p. 205
Joining Forces for Democratic Governance: Women's Alliance-Building for Post-War Reconstruction in Central America	p. 229
Gendered War, Gendered Peace: Violent Conflicts in the Balkans and Their Consequences	p. 265
Post-War Backlash Violence against Women: What Can "Masculinity" Explain?	p. 293
Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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