When is Peace?Women’s Post-Accord Experiences in Three Countries What Has Happened to Women’s Hopes for Peace in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Israel-Palestine?

Peace is elusive. i don’t mean that it eludes us in a practical sense - we think we have it, and then war returns. this is often so, of course. no. i mean in the sense that it’s difficult to be sure what conditions we may confidently say add up to a time of peace. in 1995-6 i went to interview peace-minded women in bosnia-herzegovina, northern ireland and israel-palestine. it was a time when peace agreements were in the air. in early 2012 i went back to revisit as many of the original women as i could find, and to ask them what had flowed from that hopeful moment. i wanted to find out how their campaigns had fared in the intervening years - and what had become of peace.