Overview
- Analyzes the Cypriot Problem through a transnational feminist lens
- Focuses on three women's organizations that strive for peace and women's rights
- Poses three central questions on how women's groups have organized for peace as well as the strategies they have employed and the challenges and successes they have experienced
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This book examines the work of three key women’s organizations working towards women’s rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem. Based on a 13-year longitudinal qualitative study that develops a transnational feminist lens to look at the role of Hands Across the Divide (HAD), the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) organizations in women's activism on Cyprus, the research zooms in on three main questions: 1) How have women’s groups organized for peace? 2) What have been their key issues and organizing strategies? 3) What have been their organizing successes and challenges?
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"Since 2008 the international community has insisted that the negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem are a “Cypriot-led” process. Yet 20 years after UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the top-down, male-led methodologies of last century prevail. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that the negotiations have been marked by successive failures.
In this timely book, Dr Papastavrou maps how Cypriot women from across the divide have organized over this period to advocate for best practise and a more inclusive and effective process, while also examining how successful these efforts have been." (Fiona Mullen, Director of Sapienta Economics Ltd)
"In this much anticipated book, Dr. Sophia Papastavrou tackles the complex issue of women and peace in the context of Cyprus which has long been considered a "frozen conflict" and where peacebuilding and formal peace negotiations do no necessarily go hand in hand. By tackling these issues from gender equality lens, Sophia has also provided us with insight into the deep patriarchy and highly militarised state of the entire island which underpin the major challenges faced by grassroots women's organisations. By giving voice to women from both sides of the divide as well as projecting their collective voice and desire for peace, the book is also representative of the evolution of the women's peace movement in Cyprus. In this wayit sets the scene for how women in Cyprus can move forward, using new tools and international best practice to lobby for change. It also gives us hope, knowing that conflicts are always evolving, women can and do make a change and we don't necessarily have to tolerate the status quo. Thank you Dr. Papastavrou on behalf of all women who are making their voices heard, and being the change so desperately needed in their communities." (Pembe Mentesh, Peace activist, UNDP Action for Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus)
In this timely book, Dr Papastavrou maps how Cypriot women from across the divide have organized over this period to advocate for best practise and a more inclusive and effective process, while also examining how successful these efforts have been." (Fiona Mullen, Director of Sapienta Economics Ltd)
"In this much anticipated book, Dr. Sophia Papastavrou tackles the complex issue of women and peace in the context of Cyprus which has long been considered a "frozen conflict" and where peacebuilding and formal peace negotiations do no necessarily go hand in hand. By tackling these issues from gender equality lens, Sophia has also provided us with insight into the deep patriarchy and highly militarised state of the entire island which underpin the major challenges faced by grassroots women's organisations. By giving voice to women from both sides of the divide as well as projecting their collective voice and desire for peace, the book is also representative of the evolution of the women's peace movement in Cyprus. In this wayit sets the scene for how women in Cyprus can move forward, using new tools and international best practice to lobby for change. It also gives us hope, knowing that conflicts are always evolving, women can and do make a change and we don't necessarily have to tolerate the status quo. Thank you Dr. Papastavrou on behalf of all women who are making their voices heard, and being the change so desperately needed in their communities." (Pembe Mentesh, Peace activist, UNDP Action for Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus)
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About the author
Sophia Papastavrou is Gender Technical Specialist with World Vision Canada and is based in Cyprus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women's Organizations for Peace
Book Subtitle: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem
Authors: Sophia Papastavrou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45946-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45945-1Published: 20 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45948-2Published: 21 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45946-8Published: 19 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 113
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, International Relations Theory