Women’s Participation in Informal Peace Processes

Dayal, Anjali Kaushlesh; Christien, Agathe

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“…They are also authorities on agency, volition and various subjects of politics, including both formal/electoral politics and the politics of everyday life. Importantly, I am not claiming that combatants should receive this treatment in peace processes while other participants (including many civil society actors) remain excluded from formal and informal peace negotiations (Dayal and Christien 2020). Rather, I am arguing that this fuller engagement should extend to all people involved in and affected by war, including combatants, rather than elevating combatants above other groups due to their prior involvement in violence.…”

Section: Political Subjects and Interlocutors On Feminist Peacementioning

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Feminist Solutions for Ending War

2021

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This book was a collective effort, guided by a dedication to feminist ethics and praxis. We are grateful first and foremost to the contributing authors, for dedicating their time and sharing their knowledge.This book project began just before the start of the Covid-19 global pandemic and during a time of renewed anti-racism movements and activism sparked, in part, by the ongoing killing of black men and women by police in Canada and the US, including George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Breonna Taylor and Rodney Levi. These global events required us to pause. We felt we needed to rethink the purpose and relevance of our scholarship and reflect on what types of academic work were useful and possible at this point in history. Early in 2020, we checked in with the authors, and revisited if and how we should move forward with this project. We were pleased that everyone remained committed to the book despite the pressures of homeschooling, caregiving, university sector cuts and precarity, and the emotional and physical impacts of living in a pandemic. We acknowledge and were conscious that many contributors are at early stages of their career and do not have fixed-term stable work, which we recognise adds extra stress, pressure, and drain.Reading the chapter drafts and supporting authors in revising and completing the chapters was one of the best professional experiences either of us have had. During an otherwise difficult year, we found the chapters offered hope, drew attention to crucial issues of justice, and offered creative pathways forward. We are grateful to have learned from and been inspired by our engagement with the authors in this project.We are also grateful to our community, colleagues, and wonderful students at the University of Sydney. Thank you also to Jakob Horstmann at Pluto Press, for his enthusiastic work advocating for this project from the beginning.xii Foreword Waging the War on Wars: Feminist Ways Forward

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Section: Political Subjects and Interlocutors On Feminist Peacementioning

confidence: 97%

Feminist Solutions for Ending War

2021

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“…Five studies identified explicit efforts undertaken to ensure women's participation in the activities (Aladysheva et al 2017;Finkel et al 2018;Hartman et al 2018;Lonergan 2016;Dawop et al 2019), although one study presented qualitative evidence suggesting that actual engagement of women in activities varied widely by study location (Finkel et al 2018). The meaningful participation of not only men, but also women, in social cohesion and peacebuilding activities is increasingly noted in the literature (Dayal and Christien 2020;O'Reilly et al 2017).…”

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Strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts towards peaceful and inclusive societies

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. We support the generation and effective use of high-quality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low-and middle-income countries. We provide guidance and support to produce, synthesise and quality assure evidence of what works, for whom, how, why and at what cost. 3ie systematic reviews3ie systematic reviews appraise and synthesise the available high-quality evidence on the effectiveness of social and economic development interventions in low-and middleincome countries. These reviews follow scientifically recognised review methods, and are peer-reviewed and quality assured according to internationally accepted standards. 3ie is providing leadership in demonstrating rigorous and innovative review methodologies, such as using theory-based approaches suited to inform policy and programming in the dynamic contexts and challenges of low-and middle-income countries.

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“…This emphasis on broader and more systematic participation by civil society in peace processes is not exactly new, as both Diamond and McDonald (1996) and Saunders (1999) spoke of this many years ago, but it has been identified as crucial to the field and an increasingly critical marker of what constitutes best practice. For instance, burgeoning literature analyzing women’s contributions to Track Two suggests that “women pursuing Track II diplomacy have been more successful legitimating formal peace processes” (Dayal and Christien 2020: 71).…”

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Toward a Normative Turn in Track Two Diplomacy? A Review of the Literature

Federer¹

2021

Negotiation Journal

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Almost six decades since the emergence of Track Two diplomacy, a form of informal and unofficial dialogues between conflicting parties facilitated by scholar‐practitioners, scholarship on the field has grown exponentially. Originally conceived of as a discreet complement to Track One official negotiations between armed actors in conflict, Track Two has become an established and professionalized form of broader conflict resolution. Specific scholarship on Track Two has occupied the liminal space between theory and practice, in which theoretical propositions are often born out of observations from practical applications in empirical cases. Analyzing how Track Two theories reflect these paradigms can give greater insights into the theoretical evolution of the field and where it is headed. This begets a need to regularly and systematically survey the relevant literature on Track Two given the large‐scale changes occurring in its practice. This article discusses the evolution of Track Two theories as embedded in conflict resolution paradigms, namely, strategic bargaining and problem solving; conflict transformation; and liberal and post‐liberal peacebuilding. In particular, I focus on how the recent "normative turn" in conflict resolution literature has impacted Track Two scholarship. Following the analytical framework of a mediation process applied to Track Two scholarship, I organize relevant literature into “generations” and compare what are identified as the main constitutive components of a Track Two initiative in order to understand how the theories have evolved in this second generation of literature. My analysis finds that conceptions of Track Two have moved from “narrow” to “broad”: influenced by a normative imperative toward more inclusive and participatory peace processes in conflict resolution, activities labeled as Track Two have expanded from small, discreet dialogues between unofficial actors to include more robust forms of civil society inclusion and participation.

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Women’s Participation in Informal Peace Processes

Cited by 33 publications

References 8 publications

Feminist Solutions for Ending War

Feminist Solutions for Ending War

Strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts towards peaceful and inclusive societies

Toward a Normative Turn in Track Two Diplomacy? A Review of the Literature

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