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“Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation:
Building Sustainable Peace”
This is the latest title in the Commonwealth Secretariat’s
Gender Mainstreaming Series, which highlights Commonwealth Secretariat
and partners’ work in the area of peace and conflict management.
Issues of socio-economic development, democracy and peace are inextricably
linked to gender equality. Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation:
Building Sustainable Peace brings together a body of work into an
advocacy, capacity-building and policy tool to contribute to gender
mainstreaming in all processes of conflict transformation and in
building sustainable peace. It argues that gender equality needs
to be placed on the policy and programme agenda of the entire spectrum
of peace and conflict-related initiatives and activities in order
to achieve conflict transformation. This includes conflict prevention,
early warning mechanisms; peace negotiations and agreements; peacekeeping,
disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration; truth and reconciliation
commissions; post-conflict reconstruction; peace building and peace
education.
Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation:
Building Sustainable Peace is intended as a contribution to the
achievement of these goals. It grew out of a series of symposia
and workshops held by the Commonwealth Secretariat in the post-Beijing
decade in collaboration with other partners. These fora contributed
a wealth of analysis and case studies that made it clear that women’s
participation in processes of democratisation, as well as
in a broad spectrum of peace initiatives in Commonwealth countries,
were not just an ideal but rather a reality that needed to be better
understood by policy makers and other political and social actors
working in fields including democracy, development, peace and conflict.
The book is made up of two parts. Part 1 includes chapters on:
1. Gender and conflict Transformation in the Commonwealth;
2. Applying a Gender Lens to Armed Conflict, Violence and Conflict
3. Achieving Gender Equality and Equity in Peace Processes
4. Progress in Gender Mainstreaming in Peace Support Operations
5. Gender Mainstreaming in Post-conflict Reconstruction and
6. Creating an International Law of Peace.
Part 2 includes national and regional case studies from: Bangladesh,
Cyprus, India, Jamaica, the Pacific, Papua
New Guinea, the Mano River Union, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
ISBN: 0-85092-754-4
Price £12.99
Published by the Commonwealth Secretariat 2005
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