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Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
A list of selected Key Texts, Further Reading and Key Websites for reference.

Foreword

Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
Zahbia Yousuf and David Newton provide a foreword to the publication, introducing the new Accord Insight paper and elaborating on the structure and rationale of the publication.

Accord Insight: Women building peace

Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
The wealth of women's peacebuilding practice documented in the Accord series sheds light on what women peacebuilders have done to overcome conflict. The case studies of this Accord Insight focus on specific contexts, yet also provide three general insights for peacebuilding practitioners and policymakers: women's efforts can broaden the scope of peacebuilding; overcoming challenges to political participation is vital; understanding gender relations is key to building sustainable peace.

Accord Insight: Women building peace

Mar 2013

Global policy highlights the importance of women’s participation in peace processes and peacebuilding. Yet the impact of international commitments is not felt on the ground. Most peace agreements do not address the specific concerns of women. And women are still excluded from political processes.

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process

Sep 2002

The peace agreement signed in 2001 on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), ended the most violent conflict in the South Pacific since World War II. Weaving consensus: the Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process (Accord issue 12, 2002) outlines an extraordinary array of creative initiatives and interventions that succeeded not only in ending the organised violence but brought together Bougainvillean society within a national framework. The process defined a negotiated settlement acceptable to all.

From Burnham to Buin: Sowing the seeds of peace in the land of the snow-capped mountains

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2002
Robert Tapi traces the Burnham process to its culmination in the Lincoln Agreement. He examines the role of New Zealand and Australia, the significance of the venues and the importance of the relationship between key individuals.

The role of women in promoting peace and reconciliation

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2002
The article looks at how the conflict impacted on women’s lives and how women’s groups helped sustain pressure for peace through marches, vigils, petitions and mass meetings and conferences, even though formal participation in the peace process was limited.

Bougainville peace process literacy kit

Jun 2002
With support and input from Conciliation Resources, the Bougainville Inter-Church Women’s Forum (BICWF) developed this Melanesian pidgin literacy kit based on materials about the conflict and peace process for use in critical literacy (popular education) training workshops across Bougainville.

Bougainville literacy workers develop materials to promote conflict awareness

Jan 2002
In this article, Clem McCartney describes the process carried out by literacy workers in Bougainville to create a critical literacy pack that would help residents, particularly those living in remote villages, to gain a better understanding of the conflict that was taking place and the ways that they could be involved in the peace process.

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