Defying victimhood: women and post-conflict peacebuilding

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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 conflict and post-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. KaramÃ

Combating stereotypes : female security personnel in post-conflict contexts / Kristin Valasek

Conclusion

Defying victimhood : women as activists and peacebuilders / Anara Tabyshalieva and Albrecht Schnabel

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