WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #74
March 2008
Katherine Toth & Joeyta Bose
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with us while we repair these problems. This month's Booklink features an
exciting array of titles and additional resources about
conflict and peace processes. The new titles for the
month are: 2. Leading the Way of Peace
(DVD) 3. Women's Experiences during
Armed Conflict in Southern Sudan, 4. What Happened to the Women?
Gender and Reparations for Human Rights
Violations 5. Mothers, Monsters, Whores:
Women's Violence in Global Politics 6. Men, Militarism & UN
Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis Visit our website
at
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further information and to buy any of the featured
titles. 1. Reversing the Ripples of War
(DVD) Each year, the Joan B. Kroc
Institute for Peace & Justice invites four women who
are on the frontlines of efforts to end conflict and
secure a just peace in their home countries for an
eight-week residential workshop in San Diego. Seldom able
to record their experiences, activities, and insights due
to a lack of time and formal education, the women share
and record their unique peacemaking stories in a variety
of formats. This short, but powerful, film tells of the
undeniable heroism of women peacemakers during brutal
conflicts in countries like Uganda, Cambodia, Zimbabwe
and the Philippines. The women peacemakers featured are
Sister Pauline Acayo (Uganda), Thavory Huot (Cambodia),
Emmaculetta Chiseya (Zimbabwe) and Mary Ann Arnado
(Philippines) 2. Leading the Way of Peace
(DVD) This movie presents personal
stories of courage, achievement and hope from four women
that who are at the forefront of building peace in their
countries - Christiana Thorpe (Sierra Leone), Zarina
Salamat (Pakistan), Shreen Abdul Saroor (Sri Lanka) and
Luz Mendez (Guatemala). All four women were participants
at the Joan B. Kroc Women Peacemakers Program at the
University of San Diego and used their time there to
document their stories of building peace in their
countries. It presents a dynamic group of women from
extraordinarily diverse backgrounds who reveal in-depth
stories of the struggles they have been involved with and
the progress that they have made in their countries. 3. Women's Experiences during
Armed Conflict in Southern Sudan, 1983-2005: The
Case of Juba County Central Equatorial State As a result of the prolonged civil
armed conflict in Southern Sudan the women experienced
acute poverty, food insecurity, poor health and sexual
and gender-based violence. Aimed at documenting the
experiences and circumstances of the Southern Sudan women
in the two decades (1983-2005) of the armed conflict,
this study adopts a descriptive and analytical approach
that utilizes a mix of quantitative and qualitative
methodologies. Issues addressed include the pre-armed
conflict environment, causes of the conflict and
womenís experiences in the outbreak of conflict,
including atrocities committed during the war, damages to
property, sexual and gender-based violence, flight, life
in refugee camps and the causes of death. 4. What Happened to the Women?
Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations What happens to women whose lives
are transformed and curtailed by human rights violations?
What happens to the voices of victimized women once they
have their day in court or in front of a truth
commission? Women face a double marginalization under
authoritarian regimes and during and after violent
conflicts. Reparations programs are rarely designed to
address the needs of women victims and the introduction
of a gender component is vital and necessary in order to
improve their response to female victims and their
families. This book considers these questions and ideas
through contributions from a wide range of actors in
transitional justice work, including human rights
lawyers, NGO representatives, and members of Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions. Gender and reparations
policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South
Africa, and Timor-Leste are also explored. 5. Mothers, Monsters, Whores:
Women's Violence in Global Politics Images of women capturing hostages,
engaging in suicide bombings, hijacking airplanes or
abusing prisoners runs counter to inherited perceptions
of women as maternal, emotional and peace-loving.
Surveying empirical evidence and historical events on the
execution of violence by women in the global political
arena, this book analyzes the biological, psychological
and sexualized stereotypes through which women are
depicted, as well as how these acts of violence serve to
break this mold of what is seen as traditionally
appropriate for women. Several case studies are used,
including those of female prison guards at Abu Ghraib in
Iraq, participants in the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides,
suicide bombers in the Middle East, and Chechen
ìblack widows.î This feminist re-valuation
provides the opportunity to see these women as proactive
and in control of the violence that they perpetrate. 6. Men, Militarism & UN
Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis There is a fundamental
contradiction between portrayals of peacekeeping as
altruistic and benign and the militarized masculinity
that underpins the group identity of soldiers who
undertake peacekeeping missions. In this important,
controversial, and at times troubling book, Whit worth
employs a feminist perspective to investigate some of the
realities of military intervention under the UN flag.
Examining evidence from Cambodia and Somalia, she argues
that sexual and other crimes can be seen as expressions
of a violent "hypermasculinity" that is congruent with
militarized identities, but entirely incongruent with
missions aimed at maintaining peace. She also asserts
that recent efforts within the UN to address gender
issues in peacekeeping operations have failed because
they do not challenge traditional understandings of
militaries, conflict, and women. This unsettling critique
of UN operations, which also investigates the interplay
between gender and racial stereotyping in peacekeeping,
has the power to confront conventional perceptions, with
considerable policy implications. ************************************************************************ RESOURCES Free resources on conflict and
peace processes available over the Internet: 1. New Translations of SCR
1325 Find out more at: 2. Ending Sexual Violence in
Darfur: An Advocacy Agenda Download a copy: 3. Women, Girls, Boys and Men:
Different Needs - Equal Opportunities Get your own copy: http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/gender/ 4. Girls in Fighting Forces:
Moving Beyond Victimhood Read more at: 5. Children and Armed Conflict -
Report of the Secretary General The full report can be found
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1. Reversing the Ripples
of War (DVD)
1983-2005: The Case of Juba County Central Equatorial
State
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and
the University of San Diego
2007. DVD. 21 min. WE870. $15.00
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and
the University of San Diego
2006. DVD. 1 hr 5 min. WE871. $25.00
Isis-Women's Cross Cultural Exchange
(Isis-WICCE)
2007. ISBN 9970-574-21-1. 114 pages. WE872.
$25.00
Editor: Ruth Rubio-MarÌn
2006. 346 pages. ISBN 0-9790772-0-6. WE865.
$30.00
Laura Sjoberg & Caron E. Gentry
2007. 276 pages. ISBN 978-1-84277-865-1. WE864.
$32.00
Sandra Whitworth
2004. 225 pages. ISBN: 978-1-58826-552-4. WE861.
$22.50
Peacewomen
The text of UNSCR 1325 is available online in 79
languages and has recently been translated into Bengali,
Khmer, Korean, Romani. If you want to add a translation
in any other language, write to info@peacewomen.org
http://www.peacewomen.org/1325inTranslation/index.html
Refugees International, 2007
Sexual violence defines the conflict in Darfur, but
international efforts to prevent and respond to the issue
have been insufficient. While this report critiques the
international response, the primary obstacles to
preventing rape and assisting survivors are the
perpetrators and the Sudanese government officials who
actively block the work of international agencies. From
police officers who arrest raped women to the harassment
of humanitarian organizations, the Sudanese government
has shown itself unwilling to treat the issue of sexual
violence seriously. Nevertheless, the international
community has also failed to do everything within its
power to meet the needs of survivors of sexual violence
in Darfur. This report summarizes Refugees
Internationalís work on sexual violence in Darfur
through 2006 and includes recommendations for improvement
in the international communityís response.
http://www.peacewomen.org/resources/Sudan/RI_sgbv12-07.pdf
Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action Inter-agency
Standing Committee, 2007
Can attention be paid to gender issues when a disaster
hits or a conflict erupts and humanitarian actors have to
move quickly to save lives, meet basic needs and protect
survivors? This handbook aims to provide actors in the
field with guidance on gender analysis, planning and
actions to ensure that the needs, contributions and
capacities of women, girls, boys and men are considered
in all aspects of humanitarian response. It also offers
checklists to assist in monitoring gender equality
programming. The guidelines focus on major cross-cutting
issues and areas of work in the early response phase of
emergencies. It is also useful to make sure that gender
issues are included in needsassessments, contingency
planning and evaluations. It can be used as a tool for
mainstreaming gender as a cross-cutting issue.
conflict-and-emergencies/manuals-and-toolkits&id=31201&type=Document
Canadian International Development Agency, 2007
The issue of child soldiers has become one of global
concern. More than 250,000 soldiers under the age of 18
are fighting in conflicts in over 40 countries around the
world. It highlights the main findings of three research
projects that explored the unique realities of girls
affected by armed conflict in Angola, Sierra Leone,
Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Northern Uganda. Lessons
include: (1) in conflict or within post-war programming,
girls are, for the most part, rendered invisible and
marginalized; (2) in spite of this profound invisibility
and marginalization, girls are fundamental to the war
machine ñ their operational contributions are
integral and critical to the overall functioning of armed
groups; (3) girls in fighting forces contend with
experiences of persecutions and insecurity; and (4) in
many instances, girls act as active agents and resisters
during armed conflict.
http://www.crin.org/docs/CIDA_Beyond_forces.pdf
United Nations, 2007
This annual report is a survey of the global situation of
children involved with armed conflict and highlights the
situation of child soldiers and how children are affected
by violence. It also touches on a number of issues,
including sexual and gender-based violence, the link
between recruitment of children and internal
displacement, use of indiscriminate weapons that impact
civilians, refugees/IDPs targeted for recruitment and/or
forced service, and systematic attacks on schoolchildren,
teachers and school buildings.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/
EGUA-7BBTF3-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf
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