recent reading

A Few articles that I have read and found relevant to my research:

I found an amazing article very relevant to my subject

Women, War, Peace-building and Reconstruction. Onyejekwe, Chineze J. International Social Science Journal, no. 184, pp. 277-83, June 2005

this directly discusses 1325 and how it should be implemented. The author also mentioned a book relevant to the topic Development, Women, andWar: Feminist Perspectives, Deborah Eade and Haleh Afshar (2003) whichaims to "highlight the shared experiences
of women and their potential tocontribute to war but especially to peace", I have requested tihs book from new college library because UTSC does not have it, so I look forward to receiving that in a week's time.

Another article I have read and have to follow up on further research was "The Ombudsman Insitution and Conflict resolution in Contemporary Third World Societies" by Najmul Abedin, which basically exlains the role of the ombudsman in government as a check on bureaucratic discrimination and its role in third world societies. I have to follow up on what I have learned from this article to see if Sri Lanka and Russia have ombudsman and if they have received complaints from various groups about systemic discrimination based on ethnicity.

"Strengthening women's contributions to sustainable peace: the benefits of flexibility Larson", Mary Jo; Tian, Xiaoping Conflict resolution quarterly, vol. 23 no. 1, pp. 53-70, 2005

This article links peace processes to development and advocates for grassroots development rather than top-down administration by arguing that those women in particular situations know how to best solve the problems they themselves are have.

Also it defines different types of threats:
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A more comprehensive definition of the threats to peace and security identifies three dimensions of violence. Cultural violence is prejudice or stigma reinforced through language, art, religion, and ideology. Structural violence takes place through legitimized discrimination. Direct violence refers to events or empirical acts, such as bombing, rape, and environmental
destruction. These three interrelated forms of violence exist above andbelow the surface of consciousness (Galtung, 1996)"

It then addresses empowerment in relation to these threats. The most important element of instigating a process of empowerment according to the authors is flexbility if third parties intend to get involved in the matter.