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  Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Practical Journey to Sustainability

  2003

  This guide serves as a comprehensive and practical tool to help project managers, gender specialists and researchers to mainstream gender into water management. Mainstreaming gender in this area is critical to reaching the Millenium Development Goals.
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  Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

  University of California Press, 2003

  Images and themes of conflict are not hard to find in modern society. Signs of the times include films that equate action with war; condoms designed with a camouflage pattern; fashions that celebrate brass buttons and epaulettes; and tomato soup that contains pasta in the shape of Star Wars weapons. These images contribute to militaristic values that shape our culture in times of war and peace.
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  Gender and Humanitarian Assistance Resource Kit

  1998

  The IASC was established in June 1992 to serve as the primary mechanism for UN inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance in complex and major emergencies. The committee is committed to ensuring that a gender perspective is fully integrated into humanitarian activities and policies.
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  Gender Mainstreaming in Peace Support Operations: Moving Beyond Rhetoric to Practice

  International Alert, 2002

  How can gender mainstreaming be entrenched in peace support operations (PSOs) in practice? PSOs in East Timor and South Africa have illustrated that gender mainstreaming is possible and can improve the effectiveness of operations, through gender-aware leadership and gender-sensitive responses.
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  Demanding our Rights: A Guide to Lobbying in Palestine

  Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, 1999

  The manual is one of very few resources in Palestinian society to address the issue of lobbying, campaigning and advocacy work. It provides directions and advice on how to plan, organise and carry out lobbying and advocacy efforts. These tools are instrumental in influencing legislators and decision-makers.
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  Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

  BRIDGE, 2003

  How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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  Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

  Panos Institute, London, 1995

  The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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  Gender Perspectives on Telecenters

  BRIDGE, 2000

  What are the strategies for facilitating access to community Telecenters for women living in rural and peri-urban areas?
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  The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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  Gendering Demilitarization as a Peacebuilding Tool

  2002

  Changes to the gender identities of women and men during times of war affect combatants and civilians during peace negotiations and in the aftermath of conflict. UN Resolution 1325 calls for gender-aware demobilisation, disarmament and rehabilitation (DDR). This paper considers what a gender-aware approach to DDR might look like in practice.

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