Screen LibraryPeacebuilding through Women s Community Development : Wee Women's Work in Northern Ireland /
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55194-4 |
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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 pe |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 208 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319551944 |
| Index Number: | JZ5509 |
| CLC: | D81 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Benign Apartheid -- 3. The Gendered Politics of Violence -- 4. The Coalition and the Peace Process -- 5. The Development of Community Development -- 6. Wee Women s Work -- 7. Politics and Constraint -- 8. Looking Outward -- 9. Conclusion. |