Peace Education : a Gender Perspective

ABOUT THE BOOK:- Most approaches to peace building have either ignored or marginalized issues of gender and Women. Women consistently remain a minority of participants in peace building projects; they receive less attention than men in peace building policies; and gender analysis rarely informs peace building strategies. This is despite the many Uni ted Nat ions and Europe an Commission resolutions which, for more than a decade, have criticized such marginalization and called for gender issues and women's needs to be given more serious attention in all policies relating to conflict and peace. This edited book contains chapters, as chapter one is highlighting on gender and peace education and other chapters are also deals with different aspects of gender and peace education. This book is helpful for the students, teachers, researchers in the field of peace education and gender education also. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Dr. Lokanath Mishra was born in 1970 in India. He is M. Sc in Mathematics, M. A in Economics , M. Ed, Ph.D. in Education and Continuing D.Litt in Peace Education. He is presently working as Associate Professor in Education, Mizoram University, Aizawl (A Central University) and previously worked as principal in Vivek College of Education Bijnor, received senior fellow from ICSSR, New Delhi. He is a Ph.D. guide in the Faculty of Education, Tertiary Education Commission; Mauritius. He founded Peace Education and Development: An International Journal in 2013 as it's Editor-in-Chief. He is Chief Editor of International Journal of Education and Research, a member of editorial board of different journals. His 15 books, more than 50 papers on the different themes on education and peace have already been published, released from USA, Germany and UK. He is the Life time member of International Peace Research Association (IPRA). He visited countries like Turkey, North Cyprus, Cyprus and Nepal for academic purposes. CONTENTS:- Preface 7 1. Peace Education: A Gender Prespective 9 2. Towards Gender Equity 15 3. Gender Based Violence 23 4. Different Forms of Gender Based Violence 30 5. The Link between Gender Abuse and Women’s Involvement in Illegal Activities 38 6. Gender Equity in Education 42 7. Gender Based Violence (GBV): Types, Levels, Causes and its Measures 54 8. Education as A Means to Eradicate Gender Based Violence 67 9. Psychological Perceptions of Gender Based Violence 76 10. Child Trafficking: International Law and Relative Indian Scenario 85 11. Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women with Special Reference to National Policy and Constitutional Provision 92 12. Health Implications of Gender-Based Violence: A Global Overview 101 13. The Different Faces of Gender Equality 112 14. Gender Sensitisation through Text Books 117 15. Women as Agents of Peace 124 16. Gender Development and Complexities 136 17. Gender Equity in Education for Promoting Peace 148 18. Peace Education: An Approach to Eradicate Gender Violence 155 19. Schooling and Skill Development: Enroute to Gender Equality and Inclusive Development 161 20. Role of TransGender in Violence of Trilokpuri Area: A Case Study 177 The Title 'Peace Education : a Gender Perspective written/authored/edited by Loknath Mishra', published in the year 2016. The ISBN 9789351281337 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 313 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies / Education. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-