Suchergebnisse

Different wars, women's responses -- Against imperialist wars : three transnational networks -- Disloyal to nation and state : antimilitarist women in Serbia -- A refusal of othering : Palestinian and Israeli women -- Achievements and contradictions : WILPF and the UN -- Methodology of women's protest -- Towards coherence : pacifism, nationalism, racism -- Choosing to be 'women' : what war says to feminism -- Gender, violence and war : what feminism says to war studies.

London: magnet for migrants -- From South-East Turkey to North-East London: Kurds in Hackney -- From the Horn of Africa to the Isle of Dogs: Somalis in Tower hamlets -- Home for whom? Tamils in Hounslow and home office detention -- The Sudan's divided people come to Camden -- Syrian War, migration crisis and 'refugees welcome' in Lambeth

People come together in movements to end war from many political traditions. They are socialists, communists and anarchists, people of a variety of faiths, secularists, pacifists and feminists. They share a belief that peace is possible, but have divergent views on the causes of militarism and strategies to end it. As both peace activist and social researcher, Cynthia Cockburn is well placed to ask, 'How coherent and cohesive are we?' The book presents original case studies of anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Uganda and the UK, of international networks against military conscription and the proliferation of guns, and of singular campaigns addressing aggression against Palestinians and the expansion of NATO. The stand-alone chapters make ideal course readings. Scanning the political spectrum, but always with a gender lens, the author carefully uncovers the movements' many tensions and antagonisms, looking for the source of alliance that may make of these and a multitude of other groups, organizations and networks worldwide an unstoppable movement for change. Between the nihilist view that violence is inevitable and the utopian belief in the possibility of a violence-free world is an achievable goal of violence reduction, both in times of war and in times called peace. Violence is, much more often than we think, a choice.

This annual two weeks of activism, as a lot of you will know, was started more than twenty years ago by the Centre for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University. This year the theme is 'From peace in the home to peace in the world: let's challenge militarism and end gender-based violence'. They've called on us to foster what they call 'a strategic conversation' on the links between militarism and male violence against women.