ABSTRACT
A critical examination of conflict resolution and human rights discourses must include careful attention to the treatment of gender in both fields of study and practice. This chapter presents a case study which involves two conflicts that have received ample attention in both conflict resolution and human rights discourses: The Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the conflict in the North of Ireland. Drawing on three decades of extensive field research in both regions, it examines critically feminist and non-feminist literature, celebrating "women as peacemakers" through cross-community projects. While numerous projects emerged and disappeared in both regions around the signing of the peace agreements, two examples of cross-community women's projects—The Jerusalem Link and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition—endured longer and generated much attention among feminists outside Israel, Palestine, and the North of Ireland. By "intersectionality", feminists referred to the interconnectedness of gendered identities, structures of domination, discrimination, oppression, exploitation, and violence.
