Women in peace politics / edited by Paula Banerjee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Shefali / Ranabir Samaddar -- Security, gender and conflict prevention: perceptions from South Asia / Sumona DasGupta -- Ethnicity and democracy meet when mothers protest / Samir Kumar Das -- Afterword / Stree Shakti Sanghatana -- Islam, feminism and the women's movement in Pakistan: 1981-1991 / Fauzia Gardezi -- Women, nationalism and war: "make love not war" / Rada Ivecovic -- Women in Sri Lankan peace politics / Saro Thiruppathy and Nirekha De Silva -- Motherhood as a space of protest: women's political participation in contemporary Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alwis -- Negotiating peace: feminist reflections / Kalpana Kannabiran, Volga and Vasantha Kannabiran -- The space between: women's negotiations with democracy / Paula Banerjee -- Minorities, women and peace: a South Asian perspective / Meghna Guhathakurta -- Shed no more blood: mothers for peace -- WAF to continue protest against discriminatory laws -- The way of the world / Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine -- Chadur aur Diwari / Fehmida Riyaz -- Drawing lines, erasing lines: feminism as a resource in opposing xenophobia and separatism / Cynthia Cockburn -- In conversation with Dr Hanan Ashrawi / Aditi Bhaduri.

Women in Peace Politics explores the role of women as agents and visionaries. of peace in South Asia. Peace is redefined to include in its fold the attempt. by women to be a part of the peace making process, reworking the structural inequalities. faced by them and their struggle against all forms of oppression. This volume, the third in the series of the South Asia Peace Studies, deals. with the myriad dimensions of peace as practised by South Asian women over a. period of time. It chronicles the lives of "ordinary" womentheir. transformative role in peace and an attempt to create a.

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