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Global Feminisms:
Women in War and Peacemaking
ONLINE RESOURCES
SEE ALSO: 9/11 Links
IRAQ
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide
http://www.peace.moveon.org/bulletin8.php3
GLOBAL FEMINISMS AND 9/11
"Transnational Feminist Practices Against War," a statement by Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, and Jennifer Terry
SOME OF THE NGOS REPRESENTED AT '95 HUAIROU/BEIJING CONFERENCE ADDRESSING PEACE AND HUMAN SECURITY
Be Active Be Emancipated - Women's Human Rights Group working in Croatia. Vesna Kesic spoke at the NGO Forum panel on Obstacles to Peace and Human Security
Peacewomen.org - a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. See NGO Reports for resources on conferences related to peace building; also reports on RAWA and other NGOs
Pacific Concerns Resource Centre: no website, but lots on the web - e.g., PCRC/ECSIEP Collaboration
Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture - Capetown, South Africa
Caitriona Ruane, "Cultural Rights and Social Inclusion" - reflections on the Centre for Research & Documentation of Belfast and other work
OTHER NGOS
East Timor Action Network - a call for an international tribunal on war crimes, including mass rape
Feminist Majority Foundation Action Page
Women Living Under Islamic Law
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Equality Now: Documents from the Afghan Women's Forum, 27 November 2001
VDay: reports on women of Afghanistan
Physicians for Human Rights (Afghanistan page)
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
National Association for School Psychologists - "Cultural Perspectives on Trauma and Critical Response"
NEWS SOURCES & ARTICLES
Peace x Peace Newsletter - Women in Afghanistan
Alternet's "War on Iraq" page (news and analysis about opposition to war)
"Legacies of Love" - article on Peaceful Tomorrows families (who lost loved ones in 9/11 attacks)
Cynthia Enloe, "Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue"
Chilla Bulbeck, "Reading Western Feminism through Asian Eyes"
Interview with Saudi sociologist Fatina Shaker, Online News Hour, PBS
"Beneath the Veil" website - Saira Shah's documentaries on Afghanistan, related links
Cynthia Peters, "Women's Patriotic Role," ZMag, October 11, 2001
BRIDGE: Terrorism, military action and the events surrounding the attacks of September 11th: a gender perspective - a compilation of analytical articles
UNWire.org - news briefings about the United Nations
Transcript of Larry King Live with Saira Shah (filmmaker, "Beneath the Veil") and Eleanor Smeals of the Feminist Majority Foundation
Janelle Brown, "Optional Burqas, Mandatory Malnutrition," Salon.com - article about Dr. Lynn Amowitz's research in Afghanistan for Physicians for Human Rights.
"100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide," Detroit Free Press
Crisis Report: Independent media resources reporting on Afghanistan
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Feminist International Radio Endeavor
PBS: America Responds (Reflections on Humanity and Media after a Tragedy)
EDUCATIONAL/RESEARCH RESOURCES
United Nations report: Women, Peace, and Security
Peace Women bibliography (a project of WILPF)
9-11peace.org: Women Waging Peace
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Mahnaz Afkhami, ed., Toward a Compassionate Society - anthology on creating a culture of peace that addresses the importance of cultural pluralism and women's role in promoting peace in a rapidly globalizing world
September 11, 2001 resource page, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies, University of California, Berkeley
International Conflict Analysis, a course syllabus by Dr. Charles O. Lerche, University of Kent at Canterbury. Includes links to many online scholarly resources on conflict, conflict management, peace building, etc.
Historyteacher.net: War in Afghanistan - hundreds of categorized and alphabetized links, including primary documents, background info, and much more
Middle East Research and Information Project
Coalition for Essential Schools
Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services
Middle East Network Information Center - University of Texas
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Educational Development Center - Curriculum for middle and high school—Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack
Facing History and Ourselves - Ways to Frame and Conduct Difficult Discussions
"Promoting Cultural Understanding in the Classroom and Community," National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
National Council for the Social Studies: Teaching About Tragedy
Study Circles Resource Center (Dialogue Guide—Facing the Future: How Should We Respond to the Attack on Our Nation)
Teaching About Religion with a View to Diversity
Teaching for Change: Resources for Educators on the September 11 Tragedy
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance - resources for teachers, parents, students
Arab American Students in Public Schools
Women Waging Peace: an initiative of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Gendergap: American Women in the Military
Minerva center: Women & the military, information & inspiration
Captain Critical's Military Women Veterans - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Unifem publication: Women at the Peace Table
International Online Training, Program on Intractable Conflict, University of Colorado
From the glossary:
Peace building
Peace building is the process of restoring normal relations between people. It requires the reconciliation of differences, apology and forgiveness of past harm, and the establishment of a cooperative relationship between groups, replacing the adversarial or competitive relationship that used to exist.
Peace keeping
Peacekeeping is the prevention or ending of violence within or between nation-states through the intervention of an outside third party that keeps the warring parties apart. Unlike peacemaking, which involves negotiating a resolution to the issues in conflict, the goal of peacekeeping is simply preventing further violence.
Peace making
Peacemaking is the term often used to refer to negotiating the resolution of a conflict between people, groups, or nations. It goes beyond peacekeeping to actually deal with the issues in dispute, but falls short of peace building, which aims toward reconciliation and normalization of relations between ordinary people, not just the formal resolution which is written on paper.US military eases dress code for female troops in Saudi Arabia
Vandana Shiva, "Terrorism as cannibalism"
Mark LeVine, "10 Things to Know About Terrorism"
John Gershman, "US Takes Antiterrorism War to the Philippines"
"We felt safer under Taliban, say Kabul residents," Hindustan Times, 1/25/02
John Pilger, "The Colder War," Mirror, January 29, 2002
Margot Badran, "Islamic Feminism: What's In a Name?" Al-Ahram Weekly Online, January 17-23, 2002
Bush repeats warning to nations seeking weapons of mass destruction - January 30, 2002
Walden Bello, "Porto Alegre Social Summit Sets Stage for Counteroffensive against Globalization," Z-Net, January 31, 2002
"Give me security, then I will remove my burqa," News International, January 31, 2002
David Corn, "A No-Questions-Asked War," Alternet, February 1, 2002
Michael Kimmel, "Gender, Class, and Terrorism," Chronicle of Higher Education, February 8, 2002
Jennifer K. Ruark, "Celebrated scholars release a letter supporting war on terrorism," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 22, 2002; the letter: "What We're Fighting For"
Attorney General launches neighborhood vigilance campaign against terror, Bloomberg News, March 6, 2002; George Monbiot, "Race War," ZNet, March 6, 2002
International Women's Day News, March 8, 2002 - articles from Bloomberg News
"Violence against women rife during Sierra Leonean war," AFP, March 20, 2002
Sharbat Gulla: National Geographic relocates Afghan woman who was on a 1985 cover. "A Life Revealed"; "Behind the Search for the Afghan Girl"; "Where are those haunting eyes now?" "No lying with those eyes" (The Times)
Films on Women and Islam at TCNJ Library
Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives
Islam & Feminism
Women & Islam
Women in the Arab World