Gendered peace : women's struggles for post-war justice and reconciliation / edited by Donna Pankhurst.

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Gendered Peace Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation; Copyright; Contents; Boxed Text and Tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Gendered War and Peace; 2 Gendering International Justice: Progress and Pitfalls at International Criminal Tribunals; 3 Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Gender Justice; 4 "Your Justice Is Too Slow": Will the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Fail Rwanda's Rape Victims?; 5 Gender Injustice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

6 The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Old Dilemmas or New Challenges?7 The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and After: Gendered Dimensions of Peace; 8 Marrying Your Rapist: Domesticated War Crimes in Peru; 9 Joining Forces for Democratic Governance: Women's Alliance Building for Post-War Reconstruction in Central America-; 10 Gendered War, Gendered Peace: Violent Confl icts in the Balkans and Their Consequences; 11 Post-War Backlash Violence against Women: What Can "Masculinity" Explain; Contributors; Index.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. Such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of a war ofte.

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