The shared experiences of women and their potential to contribute both to war and particularly to peace are highlighted in this discussion of the long-running conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. Policy makers, practitioners and academics consider why women’s concerns have yet to be placed at the forefront of both analysis and practical outcomes. This selection of essays presents an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution and puts forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. Contributors argue for the need to move beyond the myriad projects that involve women to consider the factors that contribute to the relatively poor overall impact of such projects - an outcome that often results from a failure to understand the underlying gendered power relations and the dynamics of social change

Haleh Afshar

Deborah Eade Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.

Sex, Security and Superhero(in)es: From 1325 to 1820 and Beyond

Shepherd, Laura J.

International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 13 (2011), Iss. 4 P.504

https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2011.611659 [Citations: 88]

The Impact of Violent Conflicts on Households: What Do We Know and What Should We Know about War Widows?

Brück, Tilman

Schindler, Kati

Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 37 (2009), Iss. 3 P.289

https://doi.org/10.1080/13600810903108321 [Citations: 37]

Looking Beyond Violent Militarized Masculinities

Dietrich Ortega, Luisa Maria

International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 14 (2012), Iss. 4 P.489

https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2012.726094 [Citations: 32]

Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace

Challenging the Boundaries: The Narratives of the Female Ex-Combatants in Nepal

Dahal, Swechchha

2015

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516565_12 [Citations: 9]

Memory, suffering, survival tactics, and healing among Jopadhola women in post-war Uganda

Abel, Marijke

Richters, Annemiek

Development in Practice, Vol. 19 (2009), Iss. 3 P.340

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520902808050 [Citations: 3]

Gender analysis of fear and mobility in the context of ethnic conflict in Kayah State, Myanmar

Ma, Agatha

Kusakabe, Kyoko

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 36 (2015), Iss. 3 P.342

https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12119 [Citations: 6]

‘AFRICA HAS ERRED IN ITS MEMORY’: EXPLORING CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN TEXTS BY PETINA GAPPAH AND YVONNE VERA

Murray, Jessica

English Studies in Africa, Vol. 54 (2011), Iss. 2 P.154

https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2011.626196 [Citations: 1]

Books Received

Development and Change, Vol. 35 (2004), Iss. 4 P.867

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00382.x [Citations: 0]

Gendered Peace

Introduction: Gendered War and Peace

2012

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203939130-5 [Citations: 1]

Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Gender relations and conflict transformation among refugee women

2008

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203893166-15 [Citations: 0]

Trauma, Mourning and Resistance in Spozhmai Zaryab's Short Stories

Bezhan, Faridullah

Iranian Studies, Vol. 44 (2011), Iss. 4 P.521

https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2011.569329 [Citations: 1]

Transitional justice as a philosophical and practical challenge: critical notes on Colleen Murphy’s new theory of the ‘conceptual foundations of transitional justice’

Hellsten, Sirkku K.

Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 14 (2018), Iss. 2 P.169

https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2018.1507004 [Citations: 0]

Invisible Bodies: Gender, Conflict and Peace in Mindanao

Hilsdon, Anne-Marie

Asian Studies Review, Vol. 33 (2009), Iss. 3 P.349

https://doi.org/10.1080/10357820903153723 [Citations: 3]

Gender, Militarism, and Peace-Building: Projects of the Postconflict Moment

Moran, Mary H.

Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 39 (2010), Iss. 1 P.261

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164406 [Citations: 39]

Healing and Peacebuilding After War

From subjects of stories to agents of change

Smith, Jessica M.

2020

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429397745-13 [Citations: 1]

The Peace and Conflict Gender Analysis: UNIFEM's research in the Solomon Islands

Moser, Annalise

Gender & Development, Vol. 15 (2007), Iss. 2 P.231

https://doi.org/10.1080/13552070701391813 [Citations: 0]

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Thompson, Martha

Development in Practice, Vol. 16 (2006), Iss. 3-4 P.342

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520600694976 [Citations: 11]

Gender and Drone Warfare

Theorising military technologies

Clark, Lindsay C.

2019

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507472-2 [Citations: 0]

Review essay: Women: Where are they in wars and how can they be heard in peace?

International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7 (2005), Iss. 3 P.435

https://doi.org/10.1080/14616740500161185 [Citations: 0]

Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland

Women, War and Peace

Wahidin, Azrini

2016

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36330-5_2 [Citations: 0]