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Viewing Peace Through Gender Lenses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2013

Laura Sjoberg
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The war in Iraq is over. U.S. troops have withdrawn. Saddam Hussein has been overthrown and replaced with a government perceived to be more democratic and more just to the Iraqi people. In late 2011, concurrent with the U.S. withdrawal, strategists suggested that there was “peace at last” in Iraq, a cause for celebration.

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Roundtable: Reflections on International Peace
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Summer 2013 , pp. 175 - 187
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2013 

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NOTES

1 Tom Hayden, “Peace at last,” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2011; articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/16/opinion/la-oe-hayden-iraq-withdrawal-20111216.

2 Olivia Katrandjian, “Iraqi Woman Beaten to Death in California, Hate Crime Suspected,” ABCNews, March 25, 2012; abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/iraqi-woman-beaten-to-death-in-california-hate-crime-suspected/.

3 Ibid.

4 Nina Burleigh, “Shaima Alawadi's Murder: A Hate Crime Against Women?” Ideas, Time, April 10, 2012; ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/shaima-alawadis-murder-a-hate-crime-against-women/.

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7 It is not only the U.S. position that feminists interrogate, but this is the position I talk more about in this essay to engage both with David Hendrickson's essay and the Carnegie Council Centennial.

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