This entry is about women, gender, and the peace movements in Central Asia. Women have made substantial contributions to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in the five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as they have worldwide. International recognition of women's peacebuilding role is a recent phenomenon (Marshall 2000), and much of the recent global attention paid to it has focused on the post-Soviet republics because of their numerous an…