<u>About the Book </u></strong><br>This book discusses the experiences of women negotiating conflict and post-conflict situations to deliver transformative peaceInspired by the vision and values of women of the South Asian Peace Network, this volume fills a critical gap in the global Women Peace and Security (WPS) discourse. The chapters focus on the region’s multifaceted experiences and feminist expertise on women negotiating post-war–post-conflict situations structured around interlinked themes—women, participation and peacebuilding, militarization and violent peace and justice, impunity and accountability.This volume looks at the efforts of women trying to deliver a transformative peace that questions gendered power relations while confronting the socio-cultural barriers that prevent them from participating in rebuilding conflict-affected societies to bring about just peace.<br><br> <u>About the Author</u></strong><br> Rita Manchanda</strong> is an established writer, scholar-researcher and human rights activist specializing in conflicts and peace-building in South Asia with particular attention to vulnerable and marginalized groups, that is, women, minorities, indigenous peoples and forcibly displaced persons.<br>Professor Manchanda has over 15 years of experience as a Senior Executive and Research Director with the regional NGO “South Asia Forum for Human Rights†(SAFHR), directing and coordinating a diverse portfolio of programs, including “Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes,†“Women, Conflict and Peace,†“Media in Conflict,†and “Rights-based Approaches to Poverty Reduction.†Also, during the last decade and a half, she had been the gender advisor, Commonwealth Technical Fund (2004–05) and consultant in projects with UN Women (2010–11, 2012– 13, 2014), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP 2014–15), Centre for Humanitarian Dialogues (2011, 2012) and Saferworls (2015, 2016). She has lectured on conflict resolution at Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Chulalongkorn University (2014), Welthungerhilfe (WHH; 2014), Lady Shri Ram College (2008–16) and SAFHR: Human Rights and Peace Orientation Course (2000–08). <br>Her more recent publication Sage Series in Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes undertaken by SAFHR and published by SAGE (2015), is a field-based audit study of peace-making in Northeast (India), Balochistan (Pakistan), Madhesh (Nepal) and Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh). Among her many books and articles are Women War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency, a pioneering study on feminist theorizing and praxis on conflict and peace-building (SAGE 2001) and Naga Women in the Peace Process (SAGE 2004).
