Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310) and index.

Shefali / Ranabir Samaddar -- Security, gender and conflict prevention: perceptions from South Asia / Sumona DasGupta -- Ethnicity and democracy meet when mothers protest / Samir Kumar Das -- Afterword / Stree Shakti Sanghatana -- Islam, feminism and the women's movement in Pakistan: 1981-1991 / Fauzia Gardezi -- Women, nationalism and war: "make love not war" / Rada Ivecovic -- Women in Sri Lankan peace politics / Saro Thiruppathy and Nirekha De Silva -- Motherhood as a space of protest: women's political participation in contemporary Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alwis -- Negotiating peace: feminist reflections / Kalpana Kannabiran, Volga and Vasantha Kannabiran -- The space between: women's negotiations with democracy / Paula Banerjee -- Minorities, women and peace: a South Asian perspective / Meghna Guhathakurta -- Shed no more blood: mothers for peace -- WAF to continue protest against discriminatory laws -- The way of the world / Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine -- Chadur aur Diwari / Fehmida Riyaz -- Drawing lines, erasing lines: feminism as a resource in opposing xenophobia and separatism / Cynthia Cockburn -- In conversation with Dr Hanan Ashrawi / Aditi Bhaduri.