Defying victimhood  women and post-conflict peacebuilding /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Albrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva. 
 - New York :  United Nations University Press,  c2012. 
 - xviii, 386 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. Karamà -- 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in development--Developing countries.<br/>Women--Social conditions.--Developing countries<br/>Women and war--Developing countries.<br/>Postwar reconstruction--Developing countries.<br/>Women--Political activity--Developing countries.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1240  / .D44 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.409172/4