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Peacebuilding through Women's Community Development -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- 1 Introduction -- Plan of the Book -- Works Cited -- 2 Benign Apartheid -- A Tour of Belfast -- Using the Language of Identity -- Attitudes of Sectarian Divide -- There Is No Peace Here -- Works Cited -- 3 The Gendered Politics of Violence -- Troubles: The Gendered Past -- Security Practices -- Costs of Violence -- Works Cited -- 4 The Coalition And The Peace Process -- Building a Peace -- Participation and Political Activity -- Works Cited -- 5 The Development Of Community Development -- Introducing Community Relations -- A Framework -- Community Building -- Community Development -- Representative vs. Participatory Politics -- Works Cited -- 6 Wee Women's Work -- Community Development as Peacebuilding -- Women's Centers -- The Work of the Women's Sector -- Peacebuilding -- When Women Come Together… -- Works Cited -- 7 Politics and Constraint -- From Paramilitary to Para-Community Worker -- Women in Politics -- Parties -- Works Cited -- 8 Looking Outward -- The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda -- Brexit -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Appendix A: Interview Annex -- Bibliography -- Index

This book explores the gendered history of the Troubles, the rise of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and the role of community development as a new field in Northern Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles in Northern Ireland, tensions persist and society is still deeply divided. The book addresses the ways in which women navigate these tensions and contribute to peacebuilding through community development, described dismissively by many in Northern Ireland as the work of "wee women." Women navigate this gendered space to build peace strategically through "Wee Women's Work." The author focuses in particular on the Women's Sector and draws on feminist theory to examine the distinction between formal and informal politics.

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The Northern Ireland peace process has been long and tumultuous, yet 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement, peace has not become a reality for many Northern Irish citizens. For those who have been excluded from the state and the institution-led peace process, grassroots methods of peacebuilding are needed to create an everyday peace that is owned by and includes all Northern Irish citizens. A narrative approach to peacebuilding is one that addresses many of the challenges to everyday peace following the "Troubles." By exploring the use and impact of storytelling and narrative on everyday experiences, the narrative approach proves to be a viable tool for elevating and giving ownership of the peace process to marginalized members of Northern Irish society.