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The ‘sex war’ and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peacebuilding.

yes / For more than a decade, resolutions from the United Nations and European Commission have highlighted women’s suffering during wars, and the unfairness of their treatment on returning to peace. Yet the injustices and hypocrisy continue. Women are reified as the peacemakers whilst being excluded from peace processes. Women’s suffering during war is held up as evidence of inhumanity by the same organisations which accept, if not promote, the marginalisation of women’s needs during peacetime. In this paper I review the processes through which these phenomena are perpetuated and outline some ways forward which could help to break these cycles.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/7471
Date January 2003
CreatorsPankhurst, Donna T.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, final draft paper
Rights© 2003 Taylor & Francis.Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Development in Practice in 2003, available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0961452032000073152

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