Monica Mcwilliams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277378 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Monica Mcwilliams |
| NOMBRES | Monica |
| APELLIDO | Mcwilliams |
| FIRMA | MCWILLIAMS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ulster |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
What Difference Does Peace Make? Intimate Partner Violence and Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland
This article investigates how the transition from violent conflict to peaceful political settlement has shaped intimate partner violence (IPV) in Northern Ireland focusing on three issues, which are policing, paramilitarism, and firearms. It does so on the basis of comparative analysis of interview findings with more than 100 women victims of IPV from across Northern Ireland conducted at two junctures: first in 1992 during a period of violent con…
Northern Ireland
Women’s activism played an important role in conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, from the early civil rights activists to the development of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party. This chapter follows the history of activism in Northern Ireland, using the trajectory to illustrate how the exclusion of women from formal institutions resulted in a women’s movement that became an alternative means for creating change. It ide…
From the global to the local
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
Swimming against the mainstream
The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) was created out of the frustrations and aspirations of women from a diverse range of backgrounds and affiliations. The majority of these women had been, for many years, concerned about the exclusion of women from mainstream politics in Northern Ireland. All of them hoped that the opportunity to create a lasting peace would not be wasted and believed that women had particular experiences and insights w…
The Differences between Women are more Marginal'… Catholic and Protestant Women in the Northern Ireland Labour Market
Despite the high degree of interest in inequality between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, public policy and academic debates alike have focused largely on men's employment and unemployment. The paper suggests a number of reasons for this and analyses the nature of gender segregation in the Northern Ireland labour market, identifying the differences in the employment position of Catholic and Protestant women. Clear contrasts in the …
The Differences between Women are More Marginal'… Catholic and Protestant Women in the Northern Ireland Labour Market
Violence against women and political conflict
Struggling for Peace and Justice
Struggling for Peace and Justice: Reflections on Women's Activism in Northern Ireland Monica McWilliams As I sit down to write this article, the headline of the evening edition of the Belfast Telegraph declares "Peace At Last." On October 13,1994, six weeks and one day after the Irish Republican Army (LRA.) called on all their volunteers to cease their military operations, the Combined Loyalist Military Command has done the same. This "declaratio…
Struggling for Peace and Justice
Struggling for Peace and Justice: Reflections on Women's Activism in Northern Ireland Monica McWilliams As I sit down to write this article, the headline of the evening edition of the Belfast Telegraph declares "Peace At Last." On October 13,1994, six weeks and one day after the Irish Republican Army (LRA.) called on all their volunteers to cease their military operations, the Combined Loyalist Military Command has done the same. This "declaratio…
Violence against women and political conflict
What Difference Does Peace Make? Intimate Partner Violence and Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland
This article investigates how the transition from violent conflict to peaceful political settlement has shaped intimate partner violence (IPV) in Northern Ireland focusing on three issues, which are policing, paramilitarism, and firearms. It does so on the basis of comparative analysis of interview findings with more than 100 women victims of IPV from across Northern Ireland conducted at two junctures: first in 1992 during a period of violent con…
From the global to the local
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
Struggling for Peace and Justice
Struggling for Peace and Justice: Reflections on Women's Activism in Northern Ireland Monica McWilliams As I sit down to write this article, the headline of the evening edition of the Belfast Telegraph declares "Peace At Last." On October 13,1994, six weeks and one day after the Irish Republican Army (LRA.) called on all their volunteers to cease their military operations, the Combined Loyalist Military Command has done the same. This "declaratio…
The Differences between Women are more Marginal'… Catholic and Protestant Women in the Northern Ireland Labour Market
Despite the high degree of interest in inequality between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, public policy and academic debates alike have focused largely on men's employment and unemployment. The paper suggests a number of reasons for this and analyses the nature of gender segregation in the Northern Ireland labour market, identifying the differences in the employment position of Catholic and Protestant women. Clear contrasts in the …
The Differences between Women are More Marginal'… Catholic and Protestant Women in the Northern Ireland Labour Market
Violence against women and political conflict
Swimming against the mainstream
The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) was created out of the frustrations and aspirations of women from a diverse range of backgrounds and affiliations. The majority of these women had been, for many years, concerned about the exclusion of women from mainstream politics in Northern Ireland. All of them hoped that the opportunity to create a lasting peace would not be wasted and believed that women had particular experiences and insights w…
Discourses in Transition
This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled 'Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies'. It refl ects on three different 'imaginings' of security-the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach-with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallel…
From the global to the local
Northern Ireland
Women’s activism played an important role in conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, from the early civil rights activists to the development of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party. This chapter follows the history of activism in Northern Ireland, using the trajectory to illustrate how the exclusion of women from formal institutions resulted in a women’s movement that became an alternative means for creating change. It ide…
What Difference Does Peace Make? Intimate Partner Violence and Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland
This article investigates how the transition from violent conflict to peaceful political settlement has shaped intimate partner violence (IPV) in Northern Ireland focusing on three issues, which are policing, paramilitarism, and firearms. It does so on the basis of comparative analysis of interview findings with more than 100 women victims of IPV from across Northern Ireland conducted at two junctures: first in 1992 during a period of violent con…
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Ethnology (7 obras) · Irish and British Studies (7 obras) · Northern ireland (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 obras)