Sudanese Women Lead Nonviolent Protest: An exploration on women’s participation in peace, reconciliation and reconstruction

EXCERPTED FROM Connecting Peace , Justice , and Reconciliation

After the Peace : Women in Post - Conflict Reconstruction

In the past decade, many countries have embarked upon the difficult transition from armed conflict toward reconciliation and reconstruction. The international community's role in this transition has shifted from narrow humanitarian and relief activities to more comprehensive efforts to foster sustainable peace. At the same time, the community has shifted from a stepped approach from relief to d...

Vesicovaginal fistula in Sudanese women.

esicovaginal fistulas are among the most distressing complications of obstetric and gynecologic procedures, they can result from obstetric trauma (obstructed labor), surgery, infections, congenital anomalies, malignancy and radiation.1 As each fistula is unique, there are many controversies regarding the proper surgical repair of vesicovaginal fistulas where surgeon has to see the best time and...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Persistent Nonviolent Conflict with No Reconciliation: the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium

On December 13, 2006, Belgium’s French-speaking public television network RTBF interrupted its regular programming with breaking news that Flanders had declared its independence, the Belgian state was breaking apart, and the King had left the country for the Congo. Inspired by Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds, a ninety-minute news special followed that touched upon a possibility somewhat les...