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The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus

Demetriou, Olga; Hadjipavlou, Maria

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Maria Hadjipavlou



Abstract

This article focuses on Cypriot women's activism and the work of the Gender Advisory Team (GAT). Referencing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, GAT produced specific recommendations to the negotiators and third parties to the Cyprus peace process. In this article, we discuss GAT's recommendations regarding governance and power-sharing from a feminist perspective and the application of a gender-ethnicity nexus in the context of citizenship and belonging. Comparing the parameters used to discuss citizenship in the ongoing Cyprus peace negotiations with those of the 1960 Constitution, in this article we also examine shifts in governmentality through the conflict and postconflict periods, concentrating at each point on presumptions about gender. We argue that current discussions about citizenship are partly the result of unacknowledged considerations of gender, which have been placed on the table by gender activists. This situation poses a question about how we are to interpret the paradoxical incorporation of activist women's voices in peace processes.

Citation

Demetriou, O., & Hadjipavlou, M. (2018). The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 24(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1422639

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 30, 2017
Online Publication Date Feb 22, 2018
Publication Date Feb 22, 2018
Deposit Date Sep 11, 2018
Publicly Available Date Aug 22, 2019
Journal Nationalism and ethnic politics.
Print ISSN 1353-7113
Electronic ISSN 1557-2986
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 50-65
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1422639
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1315125

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