Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Overview and introduction - Sandra Cheldelin and Martha Mutisi; Section one: Policies on gender and empowerment; Chapter 2: Paved with good intentions: The need for conceptualizing; Gender as a social structure in policy construction - Elizabeth Degi Mount; Chapter 3: Analyzing the regional, national and NGO discourse in bringing women into peace processes: Lessons from Burundi, South Sudan And Uganda - Edith Ruth Natukunda-Togboa; Chapter 4: Add women and stir: Implications of gender quotas - Martha Mutisi; Chapter 5: Women's lives after warfare: Disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of female combatants in Nepal and Sri Lanka - Maneshka Eliatamby; Section two: Approaches to gender empowerment; Chapter 6: The domestic violence act: Rights and empowerment - Jonathan Madu; Chapter 7: Reclaiming women's agency in conflict and post-conflict societies: Women's use of political space in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe - Ismael Muvingi; Chapter 8: Egyptian women as catalysts of change in the Arab Spring - Saira Yamin; Chapter 9: Engendering truth seeking commissions: The Kenyan experience - Sarah Kinyanjui; Section three: Lessons learned; Chapter 10: Gender mainstreaming: The case of Liberia - Yves-Renee Jennings; Chapter 11: The "peace dividend": The experiences of peace for women in post-conflict Burundi, Uganda & South Sudan - Grace Maina; Chapter 12: The impact of women's political participation in Rwanda - Peace Uwineza; Chapter 13: Impunity for conflict-related sexual violence: Insights from Burundi's former fighters - Angela Muvumba Sellstrom; Chapter 14: Conclusion - Sandra Cheldelin and Martha Mutisi; About the authors; Index.

About the Author

Dr Sandra I. Cheldelin (PhD) is the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

Dr Maneshka Eliatamby (PhD) is Vice President of Programs at Communities Without Boundaries International, Inc.

Yves-Renée Jennings (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the School for International Service (SIS) at American University.