Women and Civil War: Impact, Organization and Action

by Kumar, Krishna

• ISBN13: 9781588260468
• ISBN10: 1588260461
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-07-31
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Author Biography

Krishna Kumar is a Senior Social Scientist at the U.S. Agency for International Development Hannah Baldwin is the Democracy and Governance (DandG) Team Leader, U.S. Agency for International Development in Guinea Judy Benjamin is Senior Technical Advisor on Gender for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children Thomas Buck is a Senior Research Analyst at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Center for Development Information and Evaluation Serena Cosgrove has lived in Central America for over a decade. Presently she co-coordinates project analysis for AVINA Patricia Weiss Fagen joined the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 1988 Virginia Garrard-Burnett is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and History at the University of Texas, Austin Alice L. Morton is a Ph.D. social anthropologist who has worked on gender and development for over twenty years, first in academia, then in USAID and at the World Bank Susan Allen Nan is Senior Program Associate in the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia Catharine Newbury teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kelley Ready has been privileged to observe the Salvadoran women's movement since its growth over the last thirteen years. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the City University of New York and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University Lynn Stephen teaches at the University of Oregon Martha Walsh holds a master's degree in gender and development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She has recently qualified as a barrister Sally W. Yudelman is a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Research on Women Feride Zurikashvili is professor of human geography and head of the Women's Studies Center at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Andrew S. Natsios
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Krishna Kumar
Civil Wars, Women, and Gender Relations: An Overview	5	(74)
Krishna Kumar
Profile: Rwanda	27	(12)
Catharine Newbury
Hannah Baldwin
Profile: Cambodia	39	(9)
Krishna Kumar
Hannah Baldwin
Judy Benjamin
Profile: Georgia	48	(9)
Thomas Buck
Alice L. Morton
Susan Allen Nan
Feride Zurikashvili
Profile: Bosnia and Herzegovina	57	(11)
Martha Walsh
Profile: Guatemala	68	(11)
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
El Salvador and Guatemala: Refugee Camp and Repatriation Experiences	79	(18)
Patricia Weiss Fagen
Sally W. Yudelman
Confronting the Aftermath of Conflict: Women's Organizations in Postgenocide Rwanda	97	(32)
Catharine Newbury
Hannah Baldwin
Women's Organizations in Postconflict Cambodia	129	(20)
Krishna Kumar
Hannah Baldwin
Georgia in Transition: Women's Organizations and Empowerment	149	(16)
Alice L. Morton
Susan Allen Nan
Thomas Buck
Feride Zurikashvili
Women's Organizations in Postconflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	165	(18)
Martha Walsh
Women's Organizations in El Salvador: History, Accomplishments, and International Support	183	(22)
Kelley Ready
Lynn Stephen
Serena Cosgrove
International Assistance to Women's Organizations	205	(10)
Krishna Kumar
Lessons and Recommendations for the International Community	215	(10)
Krishna Kumar
Bibliography	225	(19)
The Contributors	244	(3)
Index	247	(6)
About the Book	253