03728nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10752390 CaPaEBR m o u cr cn||||||||| 120423s2012 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 2012014360 9789280812015 (pbk.) 9789280871708 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)868951067 d------ HQ1240 .D44 2012eb 305.409172/4 23 Defying victimhood [electronic resource] : women and post-conflict peacebuilding / edited by Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva. New York : United Nations University Press, c2012. xviii, 386 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Forgone opportunities : the marginalization of women's contributions to post-conflict peacebuilding / Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva -- Frameworks for understanding women as victims and peacebuilders / Lisa Schirch -- From victimhood to empowerment : patterns and changes -- Mass crimes and resilience of women : a cross-national perspective / Krishna Kumar -- Victimization, empowerment and the impact of un peacekeeping missions on women and children : lessons from cambodia and timor-leste / Sumie Nakaya -- Frontline peacebuilding : women's reconstruction initiatives in burundi / Rose M. Kadende-Kaiser -- Women and children : essential partnership of survival and peace -- Women and children in the post-cold war balkans : concerns and responses / Constantine P. Danopoulos, Konstantinos S. Skandalis, and Zlatko Isakovic -- Emerging from poverty as champions of change : women and children in post-war tajikistan / Svetlana Sharipova and Hermine De Soto -- Young mothers as agents of peacebuilding : lessons from an early childcare and development project in macedonia / Deborah Davis -- Putting good intentions into practice : national and global efforts to right past wrongs -- Gender and transitional justice experiences from south africa, rwanda and sierra leone / Lyn S. Graybill -- Empowering women to promote peace and security from the global to the local : during and implementing un security council resolution 1325 / Ancil Adrian-Paul -- Deconstructing victimhood: women in political and security institutions -- State-building or survival in post-conflict and conflict situations? : a peacebuilding perspective on palestinian women's contributions to ending the israeli occupation / Vanessa Farr -- Women's participation in political decision-making and recovery processes in post-conflict lebanon / Kari H. Karam�A -- Combating stereotypes : female security personnel in post-conflict contexts / Kristin Valasek -- Conclusion -- Defying victimhood : women as activists and peacebuilders / Anara Tabyshalieva and Albrecht Schnabel -- Index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Women in development Developing countries. Women Developing countries Social conditions. Women and war Developing countries. Postwar reconstruction Developing countries. Women Political activity Developing countries. Electronic books. local Schnabel, Albrecht. Tabyshalieva, Anara. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10752390 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 216504 216504