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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.

Whose peace is it anyway? connecting Somali and international peacemaking

Feb 2010
Accord 21, Whose peace is it anyway? connecting Somali and international peacemaking, seeks to improve understanding and links between Somalis and international policy and practice. Edited by Mark Bradbury and Sally Healy it contains over 30 articles including interviews with Somali elders and senior diplomats, and contributions from Somali and international peacemaking practitioners, academics, involved parties, civil society and women’s organisations.

How Somali-led peace processes work: section introduction

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Pat Johnson and Abdirahman Raghe explain how locally-managed Somali peace processes have proved more effective than their internationally-sponsored ‘national’ counterparts.

Somali women and peacebuilding

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Women have very limited opportunities to participate in formal Somali peace processes, but Faiza Jama describes the ways in which they have provided leadership in civil society peace initiatives.

Wajid district: an 'island of peace'

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
The article tells the story of the elected Mayor of Wajid, who has endeavoured to manage competing clan interests and maintain access for humanitarian assistance in the midst of violent political changes.

Towards a culture of peace: poetry, drama and music in Somali society

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Maxamed Daahir Afrax explores how social and cultural components of Somali life – including Somali poets, singers and actors – can impact on peace and security.

Somaliland: 'home grown' peacemaking and political reconstruction

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Ulf Terlinden and Mohamed Hassan chart the history of Somaliland’s political development from indigenous grassroots peacebuilding processes in the early 1990s to the development of a democratic political system from 2002.

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