Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Name: Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security AgendaAuthor(s): Siobhan Byrne, Allison McCulloch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032148762, 978-1032148762\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a comparative lens on the contested relationship between two leading conflict resolution norms: ethnopolitical power-sharing pacts and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. \n\nChampioned by national governments and international organizations over the last two decades, power-sharing and feminist scholars and practitioners tend to view them as opposing norms. Critics charge that power-sharing scholars cast gender as an inconsequential political identity that does not motivate people like ethnonationalism. From a feminist perspective, such thinking serves the interests of ethnicized elites while excluding women and other marginalized communities from key sites of political power. This edited volume takes a different tack.