Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This 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.
Championed 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: while recognizing the gender gaps that still exist in power-sharing theory and practice, contributors also emphasize the constructive engagements that can be built between ethnopolitical power-sharing and gender inclusion.
Three main themes are highlighted:
- The gender silences of existing power-sharing arrangements
- The impact of gender activism and advocacy on the negotiation and implementation of power-sharing pacts in divided societies
- The opportunities for linkages between power-sharing and the women, peace and security agenda.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Siobhan Byrne is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her teaching and research focus on post-conflict transitions to peace, feminist anti-war activism and feminist interventions in International Relations.
Allison McCulloch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Her research considers the design of power-sharing arrangements, their incentives for moderation and extremism and whether they can be made more inclusive of identities beyond the ethno-national divide.
Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Edited by
Siobhan Byrne and Allison McCulloch
First published 2022
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2022 Taylor & Francis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-032-14876-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-14879-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-24155-3 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003241553
Typeset in Garamond
by Newgen Publishing UK
Publishers Note
The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen during the conversion of this book from journal articles to book chapters, namely the inclusion of journal terminology.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book.
Contents
Siobhan Byrne and Allison McCulloch
Christine Bell
Maria-Adriana Deiana
Olga Demetriou and Maria Hadjipavlou
Bernadette C. Hayes and Joanne McEvoy
John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury
Claire Pierson and Jennifer Thomson
Fionnuala N Aolin
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Is Power-Sharing Bad for Women?
Siobhan Byrne and Allison McCulloch
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 112
Power-Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and Women: A Global Reappraisal
Christine Bell
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1332
Navigating Consociationalisms Afterlives: Women, Peace and Security in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
Maria-Adriana Deiana
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 3349
The Impact of Womens Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus
Olga Demetriou and Maria Hadjipavlou
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 5065
Female Party Attachment in a Power-Sharing Polity: The Erosion of Protestant Support in Northern Ireland
Bernadette C. Hayes and Joanne McEvoy
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 6681
Between Co-Option and Radical Opposition: A Comparative Analysis of Power-Sharing on Gender Equality and LGBTQ rights in Northern Ireland and Lebanon
John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 8299
Allies or Opponents? Power-Sharing, Civil Society, and Gender
Claire Pierson and Jennifer Thomson
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 100115
The Feminist Institutional Dimensions of Power-Sharing and Political Settlements
Fionnuala N Aolin
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, volume 24, issue 1 (2018), pp. 116132
For any permission-related enquiries please visit:
www.tandfonline.com/page/help/permissions
Christine Bell is Assistant Principal (Global Justice), Professor of Constitutional Law, Co-Director Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Political Settlement Research Programme. Her research focuses on inclusion as means of ending conflict, and she is particularly interested in how different types of inclusion are trade off against each other.
Siobhan Byrne is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Certificate in Peace and Post-Conflict Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her teaching and research focus on post-conflict transitions to peace, feminist anti-war activism and feminist interventions in International Relations.
Maria-Adriana Deiana teaches at Queens University Belfast. Drawing on feminist approaches to war and security, her research focuses on conflict transformation, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and EU peacekeeping.
