Peacebuilding with women in Ukraine : using narrative to envision a common future / Maureen P. Flaherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flaherty, Maureen P., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and peace--Ukraine.

Women and peace.

Peace-building--Ukraine.

Peace-building.

Community development--Ukraine.

Community development.

Women in community development--Ukraine.

Women in community development.

Storytelling--Social aspects--Ukraine.

Storytelling.

Collective memory--Ukraine.

Collective memory.

Social conditions.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Ukraine--Social conditions--21st century.

Ukraine.

Physical Description:

xvi, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

Twenty years post-Independence, Ukraine remains split, still floundering toward viable democracy. Active participation in civic affairs required for democracy is unfamiliar for most Ukrainian citizens, having internalized centuries of divisive .oppression under a series of authoritarian regimes. Democracy-building and peacebuilding require participant agency and voice; rising out of oppression, people often need support to speak about and transform their lived experiences.

Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine: Using Narrative to Envision a Common Future, by Maureen P. Flaherty, explores the roles women's shared narrative, dialogue, and group-visioning play in the support of personal empowerment and bridge-building between diverse communities. Despite participants' initial beliefs that their regional counterparts shared little in common with them, in the process of telling their personal life stories women were able to reflect upon their own values and strengths, and, with this rooting, they were then able to reach out to others. Rather than looking for differences, participants sought ways to express a shared vision for an inclusive, functional, peacebuilding future for themselves, their families, and Ukraine as a whole.

Flaherty's text is a model for emancipatory social action and social change, while the women's stories offer a window into the formative years and present-day lives of eighteen women born and raised in the Soviet Union. This study is a unique contribution to peace studies and to the history and building of a country that has most often had its history written for it. Book jacket.

Contents:

Study context: Ukraine

Gender, empowerment and social change: women hold up half the sky

Finding our voices: narrating our lives

Telling stories, sharing visions

Uncovering stories beneath the snow: January/February 2011

Return to Ukraine: July 2010

Reviewing the process: what has this got to do with peacebuilding?

Peacebuilding informed by women's work in Ukraine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739174043

0739174045

9780739174050

0739174053

OCLC:

794177123