Haleh Afshar

Deborah Eade

* Surveys feminist approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution * Covers conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe Policy makers, practitioners, and academics discuss long-running conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. They highlight the shared experiences of women, and their potential to contribute both to war and to peace. Chapters survey feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution, and present concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. Underlying all the essays in this volume is a sense of the need to understand gendered power relations and the dynamics of social change.

Feminist Perspectives

Development, Women, and War

The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief: Oxfam resources directory for developement and relief NGOs

The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief: Resources

Suzanne Williams

This slipcase of three volumes offers an expression of Oxfam's fundamental principles, that everyone has the right to an equitable share in the world's resources. It analyzes policy, procedure and practice in health, human rights, emergency relief and agricultural production.

The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief

This book considers specific and practical ways in which NGO's can contribute to enabling people to build on the capacities they already possess. It reviews the types of social organisation with which NGO's might consider working and the provision of training in a variety of relevant skills and activities.

An Approach to People-centred Development

Capacity-building

John Dixon

Nina Lilja

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application therefore requires ongoing dialogue with and the strong engagement of men and women from poor marginal farming communities. This book discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowledge pathways linking researchers and farmers, underpinned by participatory research and gender analysis. It sets out practices and debates in gender-sensitive participatory research and technology development, concentrating on the empirical issues of implementation, impact assessment, and institutionalisation of approaches for the wider development and research community. It includes six full-length chapters and eight brief practical notes and is enhanced by an annotated resources list of relevant publications, organisations, and websites adding to the portfolio of approaches and tools discussed by the contributors. Most of the 33 contributing authors work in the specialised agencies that form part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

New Approaches

Participatory Research and Gender Analysis

Development in Practice Readers offer a selection of articles to promote debate on a theme of current concern. Each paper has been chosen from Development in Practice - an international journal concerned with the social dimensions of development and relief work, with contributions from field workers, policy makers, and researchers. Each book in this series is introduced by a specially commissioned overview, and contains an annotated bibliography of current and classic titles which together constitute an essential reading list on the chosen theme. This volume brings together papers which explore people's varied expectations of development. It is introduced by Mary B Anderson, President of The Collaborative for Development Action Inc., Cambridge, USA.

Desarrollo y Diversidad Social

Andrea Cornwall

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --

Deborah Eade

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