Women’s Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem

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" Women’s Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem "
Papastavrou, Sophia Mojab, Shahrzad

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1051106
Doc. No	:	TL50223
Main Entry	:	Papastavrou, Sophia
Title & Author	:	Women’s Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem\ Papastavrou, SophiaMojab, Shahrzad
College	:	University of Toronto (Canada)
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	187 p.
Abstract	:	This research examines enduring women's organizations working towards women's rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem which has taken precedence over gender equality on the island. This study was based on a 13-year period from 2001 to 2014 examining Hands Across the Divide (HAD), the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) as important groups who have played a key role in women's activism that spans the long-standing partition of Cyprus. This qualitative research-based project applies a transnational feminist lens the following research questions: The central research questions for this study are: 1) How have women's groups organized for peace? 2) What have been their key issues and organizing strategies? 3) What have been their organizing successes and challenges? I use feminist methods to collect data through participant observation, one-on-one interviews, and focus groups to show how women's organizing within these long-standing groups have played a key role in bicommunal women's activism on the island including the mobilization of the women, peace and security agenda during significant periods in Cypriot history. Each organization is examined through the multi-layered and fragmented ways that the demand for women's rights has occurred on the island, as well the ways that multigenerational women have sought to make their voices heard in the midst of Cyprus Problem. I conclude with an analysis of how working against ethno-nationalist culture and the need to move beyond the binary of ethnicity and ethnic divisions has resulted in the fight against gendered violence and the marginalization of women's rights. There is a need to develop a third space in which intersectionality allows women's groups to engage island-wide with groups fighting other forms of oppression and to create opportunities to work together.
Descriptor	:	Middle Eastern Studies
	:	Peace Studies
	:	Sociology
	:	Womens studies
Added Entry	:	Mojab, Shahrzad
Added Entry	:	University of Toronto (Canada)