Abstract/Notes: Women play a prominent role in bringing about peace in post-conflict societies. Several studies have found the systematic and representative inclusion of women in conflict resolution processes to significantly increase the chances of sustainable peace. However, women’s contribution to peace processes are often underemphasized or ignored in conflict management research and praxis. It was not until the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and seven other related resolutions that critical attention was given to women’s role in the peace process. This article provides an in-depth review of the literature on women’s contribution to conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The overall aim is to provide researchers and actors in the global peace market with a distillation of the salient studies and findings from research on women’s involvement in the peace process. Such an effort is necessary to bring together the sparse literature on women’s contribution to peace and to reveal existing gaps in the literature for future research.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/17400201.2019.1576515

ISSN: 1740-0201, 1740-021X

Language: English

ISSN: 0009-1995

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: This chapter describes the development and implementation of a programme providing higher and continuing education for imprisoned women in Hawai‘i. The purpose of the chapter is to show how the programme, which was based on principles of restorative justice and peace education, connects to and illustrates peace psychology. The programme consists of educational and restorative components. The education component provides women with opportunities to increase self-efficacy and personal agency. The project design motivates inner and relational peace by applying Montessori’s peace education and cooperative learning theories. The restorative re-entry planning process increases respect, empathy, and redemption. The value of respect advanced by Montessori and restorative justice is embedded in the project. Through cooperative learning and restorative re-entry planning practices, the women build supportive and peaceful relationships both internally and relationally to help decrease the structural violence that they have experienced. This chapter describes research supporting education for incarcerated women to address structural violence. The chapter includes an explanation of concepts and applications of cooperative learning and restorative re-entry planning circles and discusses their effectiveness in generating inner and relational peace. This chapter describes how education can increase incarcerated women’s personal agency, self-efficacy, and confidence, creating inner and relational peace, leading to successful re-entry and decreased domestic violence. The program addresses the connection between lack of personal agency and domestic violence, problems shared by many women, incarcerated and otherwise, throughout the world. The programme, created and conducted in Hawai‘i, could be replicated by other correctional institutions.

Language: English

Published: Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022

ISBN: 978-3-031-13101-1

Series: Peace Psychology Book Series

Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/00309230802218207

ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X

Language: English

ISSN: 0959-4108

Abstract/Notes: "A class of five young women were graduated yesterday from the Montessori School, 532 West 187th Street, having finished the course given by Mrs. A. Reno Margulies, who studied under Dr. Maria Montessori in Rome, and established this school two years ago. Fifty parents saw their children, ranging in age from two to seven, do some lessons with blocks, cut-out numbers and letters with which they are supposed to educate themselves. They were also put through their "rhythmic work," or musical gymnastics, in which they are left to respond as they think best to music. Luncheon was served later, the children waiting on the guests. Each teacher has already been engaged to enter a household where she will direct the self-education of the children."

Language: English

ISSN: 1941-0646

Abstract/Notes: EXPOSITION GROUNDS, SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.--Having watched the Participation of the women of San Francisco and the State of California in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, I have come...

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: Postpartum women in the U.S. experience a wide range of cultural pressures and expectations, regarding both their bodies as well as their performance of motherhood. Few institutional services are available to support any of these challenges, leaving the postpartum woman largely to her own devices to navigate this difficult experience. This thesis aims to support the well-being of the postpartum woman by offering her a tool for assessment and reflection. It chronicles the development of an object that facilitates a reflective activity to help women acknowledge and articulate how they are doing in the postpartum period and beyond. The object is a body mapping figure that externalizes and records the physical and psychological well-being of the postpartum woman.

Language: English

Published: New York City, New York, 2023

Abstract/Notes: Members of the Women's Board will entertain with a reception and tea at the women's headquarters in the California building at the park, complimentary to Dr. Maria Montessori, the Italian educator. The reception will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Miss Adelia Pyle will serve as interpreter for Dr. Montessori. During the reception the guest of honor will give a short talk in which she will present some of the principles of pedagogy on which her system is founded. There are now some [40?] members of the Montessori classes which are being held in the Science of Man building. Dr. Montessori lectures Monday and Friday afternoons, her interpreter speaks on Wednesday afternoon, and review work is given Saturday afternoon. The course of lectures will continue through August.

Language: English