NEW Isis
International publication!
Women in Action (WiA) on Women in Peace
Building
This Women
in Action (WiA) issue is dedicated to making women’s voices heard in peace
and development processes. The articles featured here provide accounts of the
appalling situation of women in conflict- situations and their pursuit of a
peaceful resolution of current conflict in different countries and
localities. While the authors share with our readers a collection of women’s
personal stories and adolescents’ stories, the essays also focus on the
implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the
first international legislation ever passed to address the impact of armed
conflict on women and give importance to their role in the prevention and
resolution of conflict.
This WiA
takes a critical and insightful perspective on current peace and development
processes with a gendered lens. The articles include Jenny Becker’s call to
involve young women in consultations and decision-making in various peace efforts;
Vesna Jaric’s depiction of Serbian women’s participation in advancing peace
initiatives; Marie-Anne Zammit’s account on the challenges of war displaced
African women; stories about collective popular action among individual
organisations in Uganda for social change through the telling of Isis WICCE’s
experience of mobilising women from Luweero to Juba; and it shares Isis
International’s two-country (Philippines and Indonesia) research on
sustainable and lasting peace. This issue also includes talking point
articles such as Dr. Gal Harmat’s analysis of unequal gender relations in
dialogue encounters; and Cynthia Cockburn’s contentions on the contradictions
brought about by the implementation of Resolution 1325.
Stories and
experiences on women and peace building highlighting the use of media are
Isis International’s experience in the use of feminist development
communication as a strategy and capacity building effort to strengthen
women’s participation in peace building by Marilee Karl; also by Marilee Karl,
women’s stories of the impact on exposing the specific issue of gender based
violence on the peace building agenda; Sharon Bhagwan Rolls’ presentation at
the UNCSW 56 in New York on the impact of conflict on the issue of food
sovereignty for rural women in the Pacific; and a review of engendered peace
journalism by Cai YIping.
Finally,
this WiA issue also includes Eva Sajoo’s review of the book, Land of the
Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women. This WiA helps uncover
the often hidden situations and images of women and children caught in war
zones and conflict situations, and provides a critical analysis of current
peace and development efforts.
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