Women's Organizations for Peace

This book examines the work of three key women's organizations working towards women's rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem. Based on a 13-year longitudinal qualitative study that develops a transnational feminist lens to look at the role of Hands Across the Divide (HAD), the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) organizations in women's activism on Cyprus, the research zooms in on three main questions: 1) How have women's groups organized for peace? 2) What have been their key issues and organizing strategies? 3) What have been their organizing successes and challenges?

Analyzes the Cypriot Problem through a transnational feminist lens Focuses on three women's organizations that strive for peace and women's rights Poses three central questions on how women's groups have organized for peace as well as the strategies they have employed and the challenges and successes they have experienced

Autorentext

Sophia Papastavrou is Gender Technical Specialist with World Vision Canada and is based in Cyprus.

Klappentext

This book examines the work of three key women s organizations working towards women s rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem. Based on a 13-year longitudinal qualitative study that develops a transnational feminist lens to look at the role of Hands Across the Divide (HAD), the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) organizations in women's activism on Cyprus, the research zooms in on three main questions: 1) How have women s groups organized for peace? 2) What have been their key issues and organizing strategies? 3) What have been their organizing successes and challenges?

Inhalt
Women Organizing for Peace.- Review of the Literature.- Theoretical Framework.- Women's Voices, Women's Wisdom.- Fumbling Towards Sustainable Peace.