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Gender Equity and Peacebuilding, From Rhetoric to Reality: Finding the Way

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March 12, 2007

Gender Equity and Peacebuilding, From Rhetoric to Reality: Finding the Way

By focusing on issues of gender in the context of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, this paper assesses the progression over the past decade in international thinking, policy statements, and development programming related to post-conflict reconstruction and gender. It points out that despite the positive shift in international understanding of the consequences of conflict on women, gender discrimination continues to exist in conflict and post-conflict zones.

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By focusing on issues of gender in the context of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, this paper assesses the progression over the past decade in international thinking, policy statements, and development programming related to post-conflict reconstruction and gender. It points out that despite the positive shift in international understanding of the consequences of conflict on women, gender discrimination continues to exist in conflict and post-conflict zones.

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