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Peacebuilding : women in international perspective / Elisabeth Porter.

By:

Porter, Elisabeth J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 60.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

041539791X
9780415397919

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

327.172082 22

LOC classification:

JZ5578 .P67 2007

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.

Summary: "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."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-225) and index.

"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."--Publisher description.

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