Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

This book offers a comparative lens on the contested relationship between two leading conflict resolution norms: ethnopolitical power-sharing pacts and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda.**

Autorentext

Siobhan Byrne is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her teaching and research focus on post-conflict transitions to peace, feminist anti-war activism and feminist interventions in International Relations.

Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Her research considers the design of power-sharing arrangements, their incentives for moderation and extremism and whether they can be made more inclusive of identities beyond the ethno-national divide.

Inhalt

Introduction: Is Power-Sharing Bad for Women? 1. Power-Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and Women: A Global Reappraisal 2. Navigating Consociationalism's Afterlives: Women, Peace and Security in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina 3. The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus 4. Female Party Attachment in a Power-Sharing Polity: The Erosion of Protestant Support in Northern Ireland 5. Between Co-Option and Radical Opposition: A Comparative Analysis of Power-Sharing on Gender Equality and LGBTQ rights in Northern Ireland and Lebanon 6. Allies or Opponents? Power-Sharing, Civil Society, and Gender 7. The Feminist Institutional Dimensions of Power-Sharing and Political Settlements