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Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Windows of Opportunity

How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change

Miriam J. (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ryerson University) Anderson

Windows of Opportunity

Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Windows of Opportunity

How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change

Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations: Windows of Opportunity

 

Windows of Opportunity depicts how women's advocacy groups seize peace processes to reconfigure their role in the state. It provides an overview of women's rights found in 195 peace agreements signed between 1975 and 2011 as well as an in-depth analysis of three case studies: Burundi, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland.


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In 1915, women from over thirty countries met in The Hague to express opposition to World War I and propose ways to end it. The delegates made three demands: for women to be present at all international peace conferences, a womens-only peace conference to be convened alongside any official negotiations, and the establishment of universal suffrage. While these demands went unmet at the time, contemporary womens groups continue to seek participation in peace negotiations and to have language promoting gender equality inserted into all peace agreements.

Between 1975 and 2011 about 40% of all conflicts that produced peace agreements resulted in at least one with references to women. Many of these clauses addressed compensation for wartime gender-based violence and guarantees for womens participation in the post-conflict transitional period. Others included electoral quotas and changes to inheritance legislation. Curiously, the language used to address women is near consistent across these agreements, and that is because it reflects international womens rights norms rather than more local norms.

Why is it that though a peace agreements primary objective is to end conflict, some include potentially controversial provisions about gender that might delay or complicate reaching an agreement? Why do these provisions echo international norms rather than local, cultural ones? And which factors make it more likely that womens rights will appear in peace agreements? Windows of Opportunity answers these questions by examining peace negotiations in Burundi, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland along with 195 peace agreements signed between 1975 and 2011. It looks at the key actors involved in lobbying for womens participation, along with their motivations, objectives, and strategies. It also explores the reasons for similarities among the gender provisions.


ISBN
9780190239534
Pagina's
232
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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