Suchergebnisse

Conference proceedings: research results and approaches of advocacy to unarmed civilian protection / peacekeeping

"Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources -- from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance"--

Religious Women's Invisibility : Obstacles and Opportunities -- Catholic Women Building Peace : Invisibility, Ideas, and Institutions Expand Participation / Maryann Cusimano Love -- Muslim Women's Peacebuilding Initiatives / S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana -- Creating Peaceful and Sustainable Communities through the Spiritual Empowerment of Women in Buddhism and Hinduism / Dena Merriam -- Jewish Women in Peacebuilding : Embracing Disagreement in the Pursuit of "Shalom" / Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen -- An All-Women Peacekeeping Group : Lessons from the Mindanao People's Caucus / Margaret Jenkins -- Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria / Bilkisu Yusuf and Kathleen McGarvey -- The Politics of Resistance : Muslim Women Negotiating Peace in Aceh, Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Women Reborn : A Case Study of the Intersection of Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in a Palestinian Village in Israel / Andrea K. Blanch, with co-authors Esther Hertzog and Ibtisam Mahameed -- Women Citizens and Believers as Agents of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zilka Spahi? ?iljak -- Women Peacebuilders in Postcoup Honduras : Their Spiritual Struggle to Transform Multiple Forms of Violence / Monica A. Maher -- Women, Religion, and Trauma Healing : A Case in India / Anjana Dayal Prewitt -- Strengthening Religious Women's Work for Peace / Jacqueline Ogega and Katherine Marshall -- Women, Religion, and Peace : Seeking Common Ground -- Appendix: Scholars and Practitioners Engaged with Women, Religion, and Peace