Conflict Prevention - Publications

Publications Relevant to Other Peace and Security Issues

2009
Inclusive Security: A Curriculum for Women Waging Peace (available for purchase)
Publication Date: January 2009
Authors: Miki Jacevic, Tobie Whitman, Allison Shean
Abstract: This unique tool draws on more than a decade of original research and training by The Institute for Inclusive Security and accomplished women peace builders from areas including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Israel & Palestine, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and Sudan.  Eight modules contain training plans, activity guides, PowerPoint presentations with lecture notes, videos, and role-playing exercises that simulate real-world peace processes. It is designed for experienced trainers and is structured to foster strong coalitions, to enhance problem-solving abilities, to bolster confidence, and, most significantly, to result in a concrete agenda for advancing women’s participation in peace and security. (Bound curriculum modules, appendices, lecture notes, role-play cards, multimedia on DVD)  

2007
Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action
Publication Date: November 2004, updated December 2007
Authors: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Nicola Johnston, Judy El-Bushra, Camille Pampell Conaway, Lisa Kays, Jolynn Shoemaker, Elizabeth Powley, Kelly Fish, Ancil Adrian-Paul, Gillian Lobo, Guillermo Suarez Sebastian, Mebrak Tareke
Abstract: The Toolkit is a resource for women peace builders and practitioners to effectively promote peace and security. Inclusive Security and International Alert collaborated to produce the Toolkit, published in November 2004, which outlines the components of peace building from conflict prevention to post-conflict reconstruction, highlights the role that women play in each phase, and is directed to women peace builders and the policy community. The toolkit was updated in December 2007. (327 pages including endnotes and appendices) (selected portions available in Arabic, French, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish)

2006
Women’s Rights and Democracy: Peaceful Transformation in Iran
Publication Date: May 2006
Abstract: Women in Iran are the driving force behind the country’s reform, as they establish a basis for transformation to democracy in spite of repression and discrimination. Women in government promote women’s rights by allocating funds for women’s empowerment, by working with civil society groups, and by organizing workshops and educational programs to spread awareness of these issues. Iranian women also turn to NGOs who help advance their common cause. Although many newspapers and magazines promoting women’s rights have been shut down, journalists and activists are defying this government censorship, turning to the Internet to disseminate reformist ideas. This publication documents the role of women in gradual, nonviolent societal transformation in Iran. (19 pages plus endnotes)

2005
Conflict Prevention and Transformation: Women's Vital Contributions
Publication Date: February 2005
Editors: Jolynn Shoemaker and Camille Pampell Conaway
Abstract: Inclusive Security and the United Nations Foundation hosted a consultation on the role of women in conflict prevention on February 23, 2005. The presentations and discussion highlighted examples and strategies regarding women’s conflict prevention activities and generated policy recommendations for the international community. This conference report makes a compelling case for the inclusion of women and gender perspectives in peace processes and offers practical recommendations, guidelines, and models to assist and encourage policymakers to include women and gender perspectives in their program designs. (39 pages plus endnotes and appendices)

Moving Beyond Silence: Women Waging Peace
Publication Date: 2005
Author: Swanee Hunt
Around the globe, women play a vital but often unrecognized role in averting violence and resolving conflict. With expertise in grassroots activism, political leadership, investigative journalism, human rights law, military reform, formal and information negotiations, transitional justice, and post-conflict reconstruction, these women bring new approaches to the security sphere process. Sustainable peace, and therefore international security, depends on such innovations. But scholarship regarding the work of women peace builders is scarce and women’s work in the field of security is largely unrecognized at the institutional and public policy levels. This chapter of Listening to the Silences: Women and War lays out the case for women’s inclusion in peace building, examples of women’s peace efforts around the world, as well as challenges and successes in connecting such women to policymakers to create a new model of ‘inclusive security.’ (21 pages)

2002

More than Victims: The Role of Women in Conflict Prevention (Conference Report)
Publication Date: September 2002
Author: Camille Pampell
Abstract: On September 12, 2002, the Wilson Center and Inclusive Security co-sponsored a conference, “More Than Victims: The Role of Women in Conflict Prevention.”  The aim of the meeting was to move beyond the stereotypical images of women as victims in conflict and to explore their complex experiences as fighters, peace builders, survivors, and protectors. While highlighting many of the challenges that remain, this publication provides concrete examples of how the international community can support women’s efforts and peace-building processes. (64 pages)

2001
Women Waging Peace: Inclusive Security (Foreign Policy)
Publication Date: May/June 2001
Authors: Swanee Hunt and Cristina Posa
This article lays out an early vision of ‘inclusive security’ and points to the activities of women in conflict regions including Bosnia, Chechnya, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, and Sudan, as they worked through various mechanisms to promote peace. (10 pages)

1997
Women's Vital Voices: The Costs of Exclusion in Eastern Europe (Foreign Affairs)
Publication Date: July/August 1997
Author: Swanee Hunt
This publication argues that the dramatically low status of women in post-communist Europe is an issue that goes beyond the well-being of women per se to the fostering of economic development and democracy. American interests, it contends, require that the United States help the region’s women carve out their rightful place in the mainstream of society. (7 pages)

Publications Relevant to Other Peace and Security Issues