Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: gendered war and peace -- Gendering international justice: progress and pitfalls at international criminal tribunals / Martha Walsh -- Truth and reconciliation commissions and gender justice / Alessandra Dal Secco -- "Your justice is too slow": will the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda fail Rwanda's rape victims? / Binaifer Nowrojee -- Gender injustice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Rashida Manjoo -- The politics of gender and reconstruction in Afghanistan: old dilemmas or new challenges? / Deniz Kandiyoti -- The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and after: gendered dimensions of peace / Meghna Guhathakurta -- Marrying your rapist: domesticated war crimes in Peru / Jelke Boesten -- Joining forces for democratic governance: women's alliance-building for post-war reconstruction in Central America / Ilja A. Luciak -- Gendered war, gendered peace: violent conflicts in the Balkans and their consequences / Tanja Djurić-Kuzmanović, Rada Drezgić, Dubravka Žarkov -- Post-war backlash violence against women: what can "masculinity" explain? / Donna Pankhurst -- Contributors -- Index.