Feminist Peacemaking

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  • Women and Peacemaking/Peacekeeping - International Relations - Oxford Bibliographies
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    • That got me thinking. Feminist campaigning gets acknowledged mostly when we focus specifically on issues viewed as female — equal pay, reproductive rights, and so on — but not when we mobilise on the broader, human issues like militarism, weapons, war, security, poverty and peacebuilding. As male commentators line up to present anniversary programmes on the patriotic men who followed their leaders into the trenches of the First World War, few mention the courageous intelligence of the 1, women from Europe and North America, who met in the Hague in April to challenge the militaristic stupidities that were engulfing Europe in yet another bloodbath.

    Prophetically, WILPF later critiqued the Versailles Treaty, recognising how its punitive approach towards defeated Germany would pave the way for later, even bloodier wars.

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    It should not be surprising that women have also been disproportionately active in resisting and challenging violence, wars and armed oppression. Lip service to involving women may be paid, as that is regarded these days as a necessary nod to UN Security Council resolution Mainstream historians just fail to comprehend the many ways in which our multifaceted challenges have changed history.

    No matter what the messy causes, corrupt and stupid leaders, ideological justifications and money made by weapons profiteers, it makes a difference if you choose to be on the multiple sides of the women, civilians, duped cannon fodder and displaced. Feminist peacebuilding promotes the security needs of all the vulnerable people who get trapped in the middle of violence perpetrated by militias, militaries, terrorists and gangs that are barely distinguishable apart from some uniforms and nationalistic insignia.

    Sustainable peace requires paying attention to what women say are the causes and solutions to conflict in our communities and countries. Sustainable security requires putting at least 50 percent women — from all backgrounds — front and centre of negotiations for peace and disarmament, not just occasionally but in every significant meeting and negotiating forum.

    As I write this I have just heard that Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin was beaten up, detained and deported from Egypt this week, and Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and Irish peace activist Ann Patterson were among peace-women who were arrested and deported for trying to take food and medicines to Gaza. Unsurprisingly, most of these appear to be dominated by men who condone violence against women and the suppression of dissent, including arrests and brutality to silence journalists and citizen bloggers. As a woman, my country is still being formed: Read more articles by Rebecca Johnson on From War to Peace.

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    Today we need this more than ever. Growing and globalising networks of conservative and fundamentalist groups are pushing back against our sexual and reproductive rights. Gender and social justice, in your inbox: We publish high-quality investigative reporting and analysis; we train and mentor journalists and wider civil society; we publish in Russian, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese and English.

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    In doing so, we provide a more thorough understanding of the role women play in post-conflict settings. Moreover, by considering the role gender plays in peacemaking and peacebuilding, the literature is better able to speak beyond a negative definition of peace and to incorporate more-positive conceptions of peace that prioritize gender equality, consideration of the victims of violence, social justice, and other issues fundamental to a high quality of peace.

    Olsson and Tryggestad , an edited volume, is one of the earliest attempts to examine the role of female peacekeepers in peacekeeping missions and includes articles ranging from gender stereotypes about women and peacemaking to the evolution of women in peacekeeping. Another edited volume, Mazurana, et al.

    Women and Peacemaking/Peacekeeping - International Relations - Oxford Bibliographies

    Whitworth highlights the importance of understanding the integration of women in peacekeeping missions within the context of militarized masculinities. Gizelis, Theodora-Ismene, and Louise Olsson, eds. Gender, Peace and Security: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution. Brings together a collection of contributions that evaluate the implementation of USCSR on a number of dimensions.

    The volume particularly focuses on three themes: Gender, Sex, and the Postnational Defense: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations. Oxford University Press, Explores what gender means in the context of postnational defense, or a military system where less attention is paid to the defense of the territory and more to the security situation outside its borders, such as through peacekeeping missions.

    Kronsell uses Sweden and the European Union EU as empirical cases to demonstrate how gender has influenced the way that the postnational defense organizes its practices and the policies pursued. She concludes that gender has been mainstreamed in postnational military practices but at the same time reinterpreted as meaning women, often also women in distant places.

    Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping. War and Peace Library.

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    Examines the importance of gender mainstreaming and traces the evolution of gender mainstreaming in various post-conflict contexts, such as in political emergencies and international intervention, peacekeeping missions, international humanitarian and human rights law, and peacemaking and peacebuilding. Olsson, Louise, and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis.

    Asks and answers a number of questions: How are women and men protected from the broader effects of conflict and of international interventions? It finds that UNSC has been only partly implemented. Olsson, Louise, and Torrun L. Women and International Peacekeeping. Cass Series on Peacekeeping. Provides an edited volume that includes chapters on gender stereotypes, a history of women in peacekeeping, challenges in peacekeeping operations such as addressing sexual violence , a case study on the Norwegian Battalion in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL mission in —, and gender mainstreaming.