Raising Women's Voice for Peacebuilding

This book explores how women have used communication technologies in their quest for peace, documents their experience from their own perspectives, and provides an analytical framework to understand the challenges they face in realising their vision and using these tools. It shows how women with extremely limited resources are making a difference and documents concrete examples of women's access to and control over today's means of communication.

The book's outline:

• Chapter 1: How media technologies have been used to incite war, perpetuate mistrust, propagate lies and encourage violence and how these same technologies can be used to build peace - emphasising recent developments promoting women's use of media technologies for peacebuilding.
• Chapter 2: Case studies that illustrate the diversity, creativity, and range of sophistication of women's peacebuilding projects worldwide.
• Chapter 3: How collaboration with like-minded women's organisations building peace in their geographic regions is being supported by the use of media technologies.
• Chapter 4: Focuses on how women in South Korea use media technologies to facilitate peacebuilding where peacebuilding primarily centres on militarism and human rights issues.
• Chapter 5: Conclusions and policy recommendations to increase and enhance women's use of traditional, appropriate, and sophisticated media technologies to build peace.

This book is part of the global campaign Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table launched in May 1999 between International Alert and more than 200 organisations engaged in women's, peace, and security issues. The campaign aims to raise global awareness of women's experiences and perspectives of peace and conflict and to help women better realise their potential as peacebuilders from the village to the international level.