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Peacebuilding This book aims to clarify some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s peacebuilding in comparative international contexts. The book critically interrogates accepted and entrenched dualisms that prevent meaningful reconciliation, while also examining the harm of ‘othering’ and the importance of recognition, inclusion and tolerance. Drawing on feminist ethics, the book develops a politics of compassion that defends justice, equality and rights and the need to restore victims’ dignity. Complex issues of memory, truth, silence and redress are explored while new ideas on reconciliation and embracing difference emerge. Many ideas challenge orthodox understandings of peace. The arguments developed here demonstrate how peacebuilding can be understood more broadly than current United Nations and orthodox usages, so that women’s activities in conflict and transitional societies can be valued as participating in building sus- tainable peace with justice. Theoretically integrating peace and conflict studies, international relations, political theory and feminist ethics, this book focuses on the lessons to be learned from best practices of peacebuilding situated around UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Peacebuilding will be of particular interest to peace practitioners and to stu- dents and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international relations and gender politics. Elisabeth Porteris Head of School of the International Studies at the University of South Australia. Routledge advances in international relations and global politics 1 Foreign Policy and Discourse 8 Politics and Globalisation Analysis Knowledge, ethics and agency France, Britain and Europe Martin Shaw Henrik Larsen 9 History and International 2 Agency, Structure and Relations International Politics Thomas W. Smith From ontology to empirical enquiry Gil Friedman and Harvey Starr 10 Idealism and Realism in International Relations 3 The Political Economy of Robert M. A. Crawford Regional Cooperation 11 National and International in the Middle East Conflicts, 1945–1995 Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder and New empirical and theoretical KemalKirisci approaches Frank Pfetsch and 4 Peace Maintenance ChristophRohloff The evolution of international political authority 12 Party Systems and Voter Jarat Chopra Alignments Revisited Edited by Lauri Karvonen and 5 International Relations and Stein Kuhnle Historical Sociology Breaking down boundaries 13 Ethics, Justice and International Stephen Hobden Relations Constructing an international 6 Equivalence in Comparative community Politics Peter Sutch Edited by Jan W. van Deth 14 Capturing Globalization 7 The Politics of Central Banks Edited by James H. Mittelman and Robert Elgie and Helen Thompson Norani Othman 15 Uncertain Europe 23 Political Loyalty and the Nation- Building a new European security State order? Edited by Michael Waller and Edited by Martin A. Smith and Andrew Linklater Graham Timmins 24 Russian Foreign Policy and the CIS 16 Power, Postcolonialism and Theories, debates and actions International Relations Nicole J. Jackson Reading race, gender and class Edited by Geeta Chowdhry and 25 Asia and Europe Sheila Nair Development and different dimensions of ASEM 17 Constituting Human Rights Yeo Lay Hwee Global civil society and the 26 Global Instability and Strategic society of democratic states Crisis Mervyn Frost Neville Brown 18 US Economic Statecraft for 27 Africa in International Politics Survival 1933–1991 External involvement on the Of sanctions, embargoes and continent economic warfare Edited by Ian Taylor and Alan P. Dobson PaulWilliams 28 Global Governmentality 19 The EU and NATO Governing international spaces Enlargement Edited by Wendy Larner and Richard McAllister and William Walters RolandDannreuther 29 Political Learning and 20 Spatializing International Citizenship Education Under Politics Conflict Analysing activism on the internet The political socialization of Jayne Rodgers Israeli and Palestinian youngsters Orit Ichilov 21 Ethnonationalism in the 30 Gender and Civil Society Contemporary World Transcending boundaries Walker Connor and the study of Edited by Jude Howell and nationalism DianeMulligan Edited by Daniele Conversi 31 State Crises, Globalisation and 22 Meaning and International National Movements Relations in North-East Africa Edited by Peter Mandaville and The Horn’s dilemma Andrew Williams Edited by Asafa Jalata 32 Diplomacy and Developing 40 A Human Security Doctrine for Nations Europe Post-Cold War foreign policy- Project, principles, practicalities making structures and processes Edited by Marlies Glasius and Edited by Justin Robertson and Mary Kaldor Maurice A. East 41 The History and Politics of UN 33 Autonomy, Self-Governance and Security Council Reform Conflict Resolution Dimitris Bourantonis Innovative approaches to institutional design in divided 42 Russia and NATO Since 1991 societies From Cold War through cold Edited by Marc Weller and peace to partnership? StefanWolff Martin A. Smith 34 Mediating International Crises Jonathan Wilkenfeld, 43 The Politics of Protection KathleenJ.Young, Sites of insecurity and political DavidM.Quinn and Victor Asal agency Edited by Jef Huysmans, 35 Postcolonial Politics, the AndrewDobson and Internet and Everyday Life RaiaProkhovnik Pacific traversals online M. I. Franklin 44 International Relations in Europe 36 Reconstituting the Global Traditions, perspectives and Liberal Order destinations Legitimacy and regulation Edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen Kanishka Jayasuriya and Tonny Brems Knudsen 37 International Relations, Security 45 The Empire of Security and the and Jeremy Bentham Safety of the People Gunhild Hoogensen Edited by William Bain 38 Interregionalism and 46 Globalization and Religious International Relations Nationalism in India Edited by Heiner Hänggi, The search for ontological security RalfRoloff and Jürgen Rüland Catrina Kinnvall 39 The International Criminal Court 47 Culture and International A global civil society achievement Relations Marlies Glasius Narratives, natives and tourists Julie Reeves 48 Global Civil Society 55 Developing Countries and Contested futures Global Trade Negotiations Edited by Gideon Baker and Edited by Larry Crump and David Chandler S.Javed Maswood 49 Rethinking Ethical Foreign 56 Civil Society, Religion and Policy Global Governance Pitfalls, possibilities and Paradigms of power and paradoxes persuasion Edited by David Chandler and Edited by Helen James Volker Heins 57 War, Peace and Hegemony in a 50 International Cooperation and Globalized World Arctic Governance The changing balance of power in Regime effectiveness and northern the twenty-first century region building Edited by Chandra Chari Edited by Olav Schram Stokke and Geir Hønneland 58 Economic Globalisation as Religious War 51 Human Security Tragic convergence Concepts and implications Michael McKinley Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Anuradha Chenoy 59 Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking 52 International Relations and Corporeal politics Security in the Digital Age Elina Penttinen Edited by Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello 60 Peacebuilding Women in international 53 State-Building perspective Theory and practice Elisabeth Porter Edited by Aidan Hehir and NeilRobinson 54 Violence and Non-Violence in Africa Edited by Pal Ahluwalia, LouiseBethlehem and Ruth Ginio Peacebuilding Women in international perspective Elisabeth Porter First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2007 Elisabeth Porter All rights reserved. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-93999-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-39791-X (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-93999-9 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-39791-9 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-93999-4 (ebk) Contents Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Women, war and peace 3 Feminist ethics in international relations 4 Overview 7 1 Peacebuilding as process: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 11 Historical background to UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) 11 Achievements of SCR 1325 17 Peacebuilding as process: pre-conflict, conflict and post-accord 21 Security in feeling included in peace processes 34 Conclusion 41 2 Overcoming the harm of polarization 43 The harm of dualism 43 Feminist ethics: justice and care 56 Beyond irreconcilable options 63 Valuing differences in inclusionary politics 66 3 Recognition and inclusion 68 Identity and recognition 68 Beyond tolerance and coexistence to mutual respect 78 Coalition-building 83 Practices of inclusive recognition 95 x Contents 4 Justice and compassion 100 A politics of compassion 101 Justice and peace 104 Justice, equality and rights 107 Victims: restoring dignity 119 5 Memory and truth 127 Dealing with the past 127 Truth and silence 134 Truthful stories 144 Redress 148 6 Reconciliation and difference 152 Understanding reconciliation 152 Apology and forgiveness 161 Practising reconciliation 170 Embracing difference 179 Conclusion: peace with justice and security 184 Notes 193 Bibliography 204 Index 226