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ESSAYS AND TEXTS

• "WINPEACE - Vision and Action" by Margarita Papandreou, Greece
• Two super-powers had for more than forty years determined the world scene in terms of managing conflict and causing wars. During that time other countries found themselves divided into categories...
• "Our Aim is the Peace Culture" by Zeynep Oral, Turkey
• How much do we know our neighbor? This question leads to another one: how much do we work, or better, how hard have we been working in order to get to know our neighbor?
• "How do you think women can contribute to conflict resolution?" by Pinar Ilkkaracan, Turkey
• There are contrasting perspectives of the gender dimensions on conflict. Some analysis portray women as "inherently peaceful", identifying war as an essentially "male" phenomenon...
• "The Profile of Women in Turkey" by Nilüfer Narli, Turkey
• The aim of the paper is to present a profile of women in Turkey. It includes: marriage patterns and reproductive activities; the level of formal education received by women and the trend of female employment; the level of female political participation; and various forms of violence against women and women’s response to violence...