Liberian Women Peacemakers

Author : African Women and Peace Support Group
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060844985

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Liberian Women Peacemakers by African Women and Peace Support Group Pdf

Women are usually seen as victims of wars, as indeed they are. But they are also peacemakers, so that the riches of their land may be invested in their children's education and health services and in agriculture and industry. In this book, Liberian women and men who were caught in the civil war between 1989 and 2003, tell their own stories of assisting the afflicted, feeding the hungry, pleading with trigger-happy young soldiers to stop the killing, seeking to heal trauma, taking to the streets in protest, and storming peace conferences "to speak plainly and forcefully about the destruction of families, communities and the nation." This book celebrates them.

Author : Anne Theobald
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 3838203860

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The Role of Women in Making and Building Peace in Liberia by Anne Theobald Pdf

This book looks beyond the extraordinary commitment by women in Liberia and deals with the questions to what extent their role in the peace process has contributed to gender-sensitive outcomes in post-conflict Liberian society and why greater gender sensitivity has not been achieved.--Website.

Author : Dyan E. Mazurana,Susan R. McKay,International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
Publisher : International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development 1999.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029051708

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Women & Peacebuilding by Dyan E. Mazurana,Susan R. McKay,International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development Pdf

Author : Eileen Boris,Sandra Trudgen Dawson,Barbara Molony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000222791

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Engendering Transnational Transgressions by Eileen Boris,Sandra Trudgen Dawson,Barbara Molony Pdf

Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces. The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then divides into two parts—Part I, Intimate Transgressions: Marriage and Sexuality, examines marriage and divorce as viewed through a transnational lens, and Part II, Global Transgressions: Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the global and the significance of intersectional factors within the intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often separated: history of feminisms and anti-war, anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand, and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of rights, equality, and recognition. This is the ideal volume for students and scholars of Women’s and Gender History and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized topics.

Author : Colleen E. Kelley,Anna L. Eblen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742508757

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Women who Speak for Peace by Colleen E. Kelley,Anna L. Eblen Pdf

How do women talk about peace and violence? What moves ordinary women into extraordinary activism? This book profiles ten influential women activists, relating their experiences and rhetorically analyzing their public communication in and about their efforts for peace. Authors also employ feminist theory to gauge the effectiveness of each activist, from Americans Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams to those still speaking for peace, such as Liberia's Ruth Perry and the former Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Anne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838263861

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The Role of Women in Making and Building Peace in Liberia by Anne Pdf

In the early 2000s, Liberian women wearing wrap skirts and white T-shirts, shouting: ‘We want peace, no more war’, attracted international attention. After almost fifteen years of civil war, the enduring active, multifaceted, and non-violent campaigning for peace by women’s organisations contributed to the end of the fighting and the signing of a peace agreement between the warring factions. Although it is widely assumed that women’s inclusion in peace processes yields greater attention to women’s issues and needs in the aftermath of a conflict, this is only partly the case in Liberia. Thus, this analysis looks beyond the extraordinary commitment by women in Liberia and deals with the questions to what extent their role in the peace process has contributed to gender-sensitive outcomes in post-conflict Liberian society and why greater gender sensitivity was not achieved. By focusing on manifestations of patterns of masculinity in the public and private spheres, Anne Theobald identifies factors at different levels of analysis within different time frames that elucidate the unexpected outcome. Not only does this provide for a more encompassing understanding of dynamics of gender relations and context-specific variables impeding gender sensitivity in post-conflict settings, but it also helps to refine prevailing theoretical approaches on gender in peacemaking and peacebuilding and to develop more holistic, context-specific, and efficient policy approaches, which can effectively lead to gender-sensitive peace.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262935

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Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

Author : Janel B. Galvanek,James Suah Shilue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943271410

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Working Tirelessly for Peace and Equality by Janel B. Galvanek,James Suah Shilue Pdf

From the establishment of the Liberian state in 1847, the government's indirect rule over the majority indigenous Liberian population was oppressive and exploitative, and in 1980 the settler government was overthrown. But instead of uniting Liberians, the first indigenous Liberian president presided over a 10-year dictatorship, followed by a brutal civil war that lasted until 2003. In this case study, we examine the methodologies and approaches of the various actors involved in civil resistance and peacebuilding throughout each phase of conflict in Liberia. Organizations like the Inter-Religious Council of Liberia, the Mano River Women's Peace Network, and the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission worked for peace and advocated for democratic change throughout the civil war. Then in 2003, the Mass Action for Peace began organizing protests, sit-ins, and vigils to actively pressure the warring parties to come to an agreement. These actors pursued strategies of peacebuilding and civil resistance simultaneously, which led to the complementarity of their work and increased the impact they had on the peace process.

Author : Cian C Murphy,Penny Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316349

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Law and Outsiders by Cian C Murphy,Penny Green Pdf

Law and Outsiders is a collection of 13 essays from leading young scholars covering five important areas of legal scholarship: adjudication, European law and politics, migration, vulnerable minorities and legal values. The recurring theme in the volume is the way in which rules and processes are contributing to the creation of twenty-first-century 'others' in areas such as domestic constitutional systems, international security and migration, and global human rights discourses. The essays are drawn from the second International Graduate Legal Research Conference, held at King's College London in June 2008.

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134772759

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Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation by Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams Pdf

The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs, transitional justice mechanisms, reconciliation measures, and legal and political reforms, which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently. By drawing on a strong theoretical framework and a number of cases, this volume provides important insight into questions pertaining to the end of conflict and the challenges inherent in the post-conflict transition period that are relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Author : Stephen Ellis,Ineke Van Kessel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004180130

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Movers and Shakers by Stephen Ellis,Ineke Van Kessel Pdf

This collection of empirical and theoretical studies of social movements in Africa is a corrective to a literature that has largely ignored that continent. It shows that Africa s social movements have distinctive features that are related to its specific history.

Author : Margaret Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Violence
ISBN : 9781608331314

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Violence, Transformation, and The Sacred: "They shall be called Children of God" by Margaret Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright Pdf

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 3030280985

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola Pdf

This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Author : Howard Stein,Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136285363

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Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa by Howard Stein,Amal Hassan Fadlalla Pdf

The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks affecting the generalized well-being or dignity of people. Despite this rising prominence, the discourses surrounding human security have neglected to address the topic of gender, particularly how issues of poverty and underdevelopment impact women’s and men’s experiences and strategies differently. Since its introduction in the 1994 UNDP Human Development report, the idea of human security has become increasingly influential among academics and international development practitioners. However, gendered dimensions of human security have not attracted enough attention, despite their vital importance. Women are disproportionately more vulnerable to disease and other forms of human insecurity due to differences in entitlement, empowerment and an array of other ecological and socio-economic factors. These gendered insecurities are inextricably linked to poverty, and as a result, the feminization of poverty is a growing phenomenon worldwide. The contributors to this volume rely on a gender-focused analysis to consider a number of issues central to human security and development in Africa, including food security, environmental health risks, discrimination within judicial and legal systems, gendered aspects of HIV/AIDS transmission and treatment technologies, neoliberalism and poverty alleviation strategies, and conflict and women’s political activism. The gender focus of this volume points to the importance of power relationships and policy variability underlying human insecurities in the African context. The insights of this book offer the potential for an improved human security framework, one that embraces a more complex and context-specific analysis of the issues of risk and vulnerability, therefore expanding the capacities of the human security framework to safeguard the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.

Author : Leymah Gbowee
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780732294083

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Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee Pdf

Mighty be their Powers chronicles the unthinkable violence Leymah Gbowee has faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped to broker by empowering her country women and others around the world to take action and change History.