This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying
peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace
processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and
post-conflict transformation.
Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights
positive examples of women's peacebuilding in comparative
international contexts. She critically interrogates accepted and
entrenched dualisms that prevent meaningful reconciliation, while
also examining the harm of othering and the importance of
recognition, inclusion and tolerance. Drawing on feminist ethics,
the book develops a politics of compassion that defends justice,
equality and rights and the need to restore victims' dignity.
Complex issues of memory, truth, silence and redress are explored
while new ideas on reconciliation and embracing difference
emerge.
Many ideas challenge orthodox understandings of peace. The
arguments developed here demonstrate how peacebuilding can be
understood more broadly than current United Nations and orthodox
usages so that women's activities in conflict and transitional
societies can be valued as participating in building sustainable
peace with justice. Theoretically integrating peace and conflict
studies, international relations, political theory and feminist
ethics, this book focuses on the lessons to be learned from best
practices of peacebuilding situated around the UN Security Council
Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Peacebuilding will be of particular interest to peace
practitioners and to students and researchers of peace and conflict
studies, international relations and gender politics.
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