Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India
Author: Åshild Kolås
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789385932519
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Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India
Author: Ashild Kolas
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789385932304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by scholarship, they have played a crucial role in attempts to strengthen civil society and bring peace to the region. This collection offers a close look at the successes and failures of those efforts, adding important insight into ongoing debates on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. At the same time, the book takes a fresh, critical look at universalist feminist and interventionist biases that have tended to see peace processes as windows of opportunity for women's empowerment while ignoring the complexity of gender relations during conflict.
Women and Conflict in India
Author: Sanghamitra Choudhury
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1317553616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the impact that prolonged socio-political conflict in India has had on political and social spaces for women. Focusing in particular on Assam in the North East of India, it looks at how the conflict can be restricting, and yet can also have the potential to expand these spaces for women owing to the collapsing of boundaries of gender roles, thereby creating niche areas that may be leveraged for socio-political transformation. Based on empirical material collected from in-depth interviews with individuals on both sides of the conflict, the book locates the analysis in both a legal and political context. It examines the causes, dynamics and impact of the ethno-political conflicts in Assam, as well as the efficacy and outcomes of ‘capacity building’ programmes aimed at rehabilitating the surrendered militants as well as assisting affected women. The book goes on to look at the role played by civil society, especially the Mahila Shanti Sena (Women Peace Corp), towards conflict transformation. It highlights the preventive, mitigative and adaptive measures taken by the women and their role as agents of peace in the volatile zones of North East India. Analysing the changing role of women in conflict situations, as well as the legal measures and regulatory mechanisms in place for women in vulnerable pockets of India, this book is a useful contribution to Gender Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and South Asian Politics.
Openings for Peace
Author: Asha Hans
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Published: 2016-10-17
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789353288327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A close look at the relevance, utility and potential of the UNSC Resolution 1325 for achieving inclusive and sustainable peace in India. This is one of the first crucial discussions on what can be adapted and implemented in the United Nations Security Council's Resolution 1325 on women, peace, security (WPS) and militarization in the Indian context. It examines cases that reveal the expanded context of conflict and insecurity, showing the possible relevance and limitations of the UN Resolution as a tool for social and policy change in India. Being comprehensive in approach, the book links discussions on the WPS resolutions (1325 and its successors) with militarism and explores the relevance of the latter in settings that are not deemed as 'conflict'. It deliberates the result of militarization and engendered conflict in the Indian states and also discusses Indian peacekeeping operations, which are an important part of India's international engagement.
Women and Peace
Author: Anuradha Dutta
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Armed Conflicts Are Never Gender-Neutral. The Costs Of Conflict Be It Of Any Kind Ate Borne Disproportionately By Women, Children And Youth As Well. It Is Not That Women Do Not Have A Place In The Peace Building Process. But Women'S Identity As Victims Ci
Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar
Author: Åshild Kolås
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1000300838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book describes women’s efforts as agents for change in Myanmar and examines the potential of the peace process as an opportunity for women’s empowerment. Following decades of political turbulence, the volume describes the contributions of women in Myanmar in the midst of a difficult peace process and reflects on the significance of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in this context. The book examines how women have mobilized for peace, while also addressing women’s participation in the conflict, and investigates the perspectives and aims of women’s organizations and the challenges and aspirations of women activists in Myanmar’s ethnic areas. Contributions in the volume discuss and critically assess the argument that war and peacebuilding add momentum to the transformation of gender roles. By presenting new knowledge on women’s disempowerment and empowerment in conflict, and their participation in peacebuilding, this book adds important insights into the debate on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. This book will be of interest to students of peace and conflict studies, gender studies and security studies in general.
Conflict and Peace in India's Northeast
The Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Author: Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-26
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 100046248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘women and peace and security’. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which elaborates or extends aspects of the original resolution. This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the WPS agenda in two halves. The first half of the book presents a series of essays that each provide a glimpse of the rich and insightful research on WPS being undertaken in and about different contexts, to demonstrate the importance of centring the "local" as a site of knowledge production in the WPS agenda. The essays presented in the second half of the book also engage questions of knowledge production, documenting the exploratory methods in use in WPS scholarship, and highlighting those topics engaged at the hinterlands of what is a broad field – topics that gesture at the future of research in this area. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Women, Peace and Security in Nepal
Author: Åshild Kolås
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1351657437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →5 Does international aid help women peacebuilders in Nepal? -- Aid, peacebuilding, and Nepal's 'gender agenda' -- Local peace committees -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 6 Women, Peace and Security The case of Nepal -- Theorizing gender, conflict and empowerment -- Women, conflict and empowerment in Nepal -- Women in post-conflict politics -- An analysis of women's post-conflict empowerment in Nepal -- Notes -- References -- Index
Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence
Author: Deniz Ülke Arıboğan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-09-23
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 3031365380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world. While the international relations discipline has traditionally viewed the relationship between women and violent actors as an exploitative one, this book demonstrates that taking maternal bodies seriously creates important intellectual space to examine the types and kinds of violence the discipline of IR takes seriously and the types and kinds of resistance practiced by mothers but often overlooked (at least by male/mainstream IR). Focusing on motherhood as an agency of change, this volume will appeal to scholars in the field of gender and international security, think tanks working on political and security affairs, social activists, policymakers, an interested public audience, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking study or research associated with gender and political violence.
