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Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are implemented and promoted in international society we must understand how gender ideas affect the principle of civilian immunity. Each case study demonstrates the importance of assumptions about gender relations in shaping international politics, and in developing a framework for incorporating an attention to gender into the often gender-blind scholarship on international norms. As such, this book will be of interest to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists alike.

"Beginning back in the waning days of the Civil Rights movement, through the objection to the war in Vietnam, and on to the current global peace movement, this is a personal and professional account offered for the reader curious about whether and how nonviolence works"--Provided by publisher

Introduction : the Chinese century / Alan Hunter -- Peace studies : a ten point primer / Johan Galtung -- Towards a politics of reconciliation / Hu Chuansheng -- Peace research needs to re-orient / J(c)ırgen Johansen -- Forgiveness in Chinese and western culture / Pan Zhichang -- Latin American perspectives on peace research / (c)rsula Oswald Spring -- The peace process in South Africa / Paddy Meskin -- Japanese peace museums : education and reconciliation / Kazuyo Yamane -- The development of peace studies in the USA / Carol Rank -- Peace studies in the UK : a personal reflection / Andrew Rigby -- New themes in peace studies / Alan Hunter -- Ethics or interests? : Blair's foreign policy / Liu Cheng -- Exploring conflict and harmony : Hong Kong and Macao / Lin Yuan -- Towards peace with justice : developing a peace centre in Australia / Stuart Rees -- A peaceful solution : British parliamentary reforms / Qian Chengdan -- Afterword : aspirations for peace studies in China / Liu Cheng

"The authors present a detailed blueprint for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq that is bound to stir a national debate. Former senator George McGovern and William R. Polk, a leading authority on the Middle East, offer a detailed plan for a speedy troop withdrawal from Iraq. During the phased withdrawal, to begin on December 31, 2006, and to be completed by June 30, 2007, they recommend that the Iraq government engage the temporary services of an international stabilization force to police the country. Other elements in the withdrawal plan include an independent accounting of American expenditures of Iraqi funds, reparations to Iraqi civilians for lives lost and property destroyed, immediate release of all prisoners of war, the closing of American detention centers, and offering to void all contracts for petroleum exploration, development, and marketing made during the American occupation."--From source other than the Library of Congress