The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The
Challenges in Development Aid by Marcia E. Greenberg and Elaine
Zuckerman.
This is a chapter in MAKING
PEACE WORK: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction, edited
by Tony Addison and Tilman Brück, Palgrave MacMillan, United
Nations
University,
2009. This book provides an insight into some of the main
issues that arise in post-conflict economic and social reconstruction, and
offers examples of what works, and what does not.
Based on analyzing World Bank and other donor
post-conflict reconstruction loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic
and microeconomic perspectives, The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The
Challenges in Development Aid concludes that few donor post-conflict
reconstruction projects identify or address gender discrimination issues.
World Bank PCR investments hardly reflect Bank research recognizing that gender
inequality increases the likelihood of conflict and gender equality is central
to development and peace. Greenberg and Zuckerman’s conceptual framework
examining women’s programs, gender mainstreaming, and gender roles in transforming
violent into peaceful societies, leads them to recommend that PCR projects
systematically address gender issues and promote gender equality to make peace
work.