Gender Conflict And Reintegration In Uganda

Author : Allen Kiconco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000402742

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Gender, Conflict and Reintegration in Uganda by Allen Kiconco Pdf

This book explores what happened when the tens of thousands of girls (now women) abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army and inducted into their campaign of violence against the Ugandan government, returned home. Drawing on extensive original research, the author considers the challenges which the formerly abducted women have encountered upon their return, the strategies which have been used to aid their reintegration, and the enduring stigma of abduction which they continue to suffer from. The author demonstrates that ‘home’, a place of hope and comfort, can also be a hostile environment which leaves formerly abducted women in precarious and vulnerable situations. The many shortcomings in the reintegration process have serious implications for the prospects of post-conflict reconstruction. Analysing reintegration as a long-term and dynamic process which involves complex negotiations and exchanges between hosting communities and formerly abducted women, this book will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and practitioners working in the fields of post-conflict reconstruction, African politics and gender and conflict.

Author : Judy El-Bushra,Ibrahim M. G. Sahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Human Rights Africa (Organization)
ISBN : UOM:39015064923967

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Cycles of Violence by Judy El-Bushra,Ibrahim M. G. Sahl Pdf

Author : Sidonia Angom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319758831

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Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda by Sidonia Angom Pdf

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda. The author modified Lederach's peacebuilding framework to include peacemaking to bring out the argument that women and men make significant contributions to the peace processes and point out women’s position as top leadership actors. The book uncovers the under-emphasised role of women in peacemaking and building. From grassroots to national level, women were found to have organised themselves and assumed roles as advocates, negotiators and mobilisers. The actions by women became evident at the stalemated Juba peace talks when women presented the Peace Torch to the peace negotiating teams who on the occasion shook hands for the first time and peace was ushered in. Their initiatives and non-violent actions offer lessons to resolve civil conflicts in Africa. The book recommends that women should undergo relevant training in times of peace as this would make them more effective in times of need.

Author : Neil Howard,Samuel Okyere
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030787639

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International Child Protection by Neil Howard,Samuel Okyere Pdf

This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures. It looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns of power and exclusion that blight otherwise good intentions. The book assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve it. Bringing together influential, established voices, and emerging scholars who work on issues related to childhood, youth, policy, and practice, the book offers a timely intervention that aims to push the world of international child protection in more progressive directions.

Author : Elizabeth Faulkner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529224702

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Modern Slavery in Global Context by Elizabeth Faulkner Pdf

This collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to exploitation.

Author : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 085598533X

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Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction by Caroline Sweetman Pdf

This collection of articles explores conflict prevention through development projects in places where resources are scarce, and age-old agreements between groups come under strain.

Author : Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821447987

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Research as More Than Extraction by Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk Pdf

This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching gender-based violence and other related issues in Africa. Wartime violence and its aftermath present numerous practical, ethical, and political challenges that are especially acute for researchers working on gender-based and sexual violence. Drawing upon applied examples from across the African continent, this volume features unique contributions from researchers and practitioners with decades of experience developing research partnerships, designing and undertaking fieldwork, asking sensitive questions, negotiating access, collecting and evaluating information, and validating results. These are all endeavors that also raise pressing ethical questions, especially in relation to retraumatization, social stigma, and even payment of participants. Ethical and methodological questions cannot be separated from political and institutional considerations. Systems of privilege and marginalization cannot be wished away, so they need to be both interrogated and contested. This is where precedents and power relations established under colonialism and imperialism take center stage. Europeans have been extracting valuable resources from the African continent for centuries. Research into gender-based violence risks being yet another extractive industry. There are times when committed individuals can make valuable contributions to a more equitable future, but funding streams, knowledge hierarchies, and institutional positions continue to have powerful effects. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume also concentrate upon the layered effects of power and position, relationships between researchers, organizations, and communities, and the political economy of knowledge production; this brings into focus questions about how and why information gets generated, for which kinds of audiences, and for whose benefit.

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134772827

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Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation by Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams Pdf

The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs, transitional justice mechanisms, reconciliation measures, and legal and political reforms, which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently. By drawing on a strong theoretical framework and a number of cases, this volume provides important insight into questions pertaining to the end of conflict and the challenges inherent in the post-conflict transition period that are relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Author : Simona Sharoni,Julia Welland,Linda Steiner,Jennifer Pedersen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849808927

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Handbook on Gender and War by Simona Sharoni,Julia Welland,Linda Steiner,Jennifer Pedersen Pdf

This interdisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the relationship between gender and war, exploring the conduct of war, its impact, aftermath and opposition to it. Offering sophisticated theoretical insights and empirical research from the First World War to contemporary conflicts around the world, this Handbook underscores the centrality of gender to critical examinations of war.

Author : Mel Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317029373

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The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa by Mel Gray Pdf

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights multiple practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that have recently been or are currently practising social workers. As an edited book, it draws from both academic research as well as lived practice experience, supported by strong theoretical positioning and guidance in introductory chapters, drawing on African literature, wherever possible. Looking at case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania and covering established areas of practice such as child protection; working with older people; working with people with disabilities; mental health; and mainstream services targeting women as well as emerging areas of developmental social work practice, such as humanitarian assistance in post-conflict situations; work with immigrants and refugees; and the training of community-based workers, this book takes a future-oriented perspective that aims to move beyond well-worn critiques to envision constructive and sustainable futures for social work and social development in Africa from a critical perspective.

Author : Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0821425242

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Research As More Than Extraction by Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk Pdf

This book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts.

Author : Shaifali Sandhya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197579909

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Displaced by Shaifali Sandhya Pdf

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their homes and heritage. Surging pushbacks, protection gaps, and deportations precipitate refugees' exclusion from equitable economic, social, cultural, political, and reproductive rights, amplifying suffering. As such, displaced communities will shoulder a silent epidemic of posttraumatic stress as well as other debilitating ailments, which are often passed down to future generations. Host nations to which refugees flee do not always associate their psychological well-being with future self-sufficiency and potential for contributions to society, and humanitarian organizations seldom prioritize improved mental health outcomes for refugees. The toll of failing to elevate the importance of refugee mental health is immense, at both individual and societal scales. Drawing on firsthand accounts and empirical research, as well as interviews with government officials, agency directors, and refugee camp managers, Displaced explores the psychological trauma of refugees, the complex interplay between trauma and integration into host nations, and the consequences of failing to attend to refugee mental health as part of comprehensive resettlement initiatives worldwide. Displaced utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to investigate various aspects of refugee trauma, including gender-specific experiences of war; trauma transmission within conflict-affected families; the mental health ramifications of human cruelty such as political torture; local expressions of refugee resilience and illness in their countries of origin; and the role of stereotypes, social categories, and transatlantic networks in shaping refugee identity and resilience. Identifying key themes and resettlement processes of asylum frameworks in Germany, the US, the UK, and elsewhere, the book demonstrates how national policies can affect refugees' self-sufficiency and well-being in host societies, and the essential role of receiving nations in designing better opportunities for their access across vocational, educational, and social domains. Utilizing a systems-informed, evidence-based, and human-rights-oriented approach, Displaced also discusses trauma-informed treatments that may help improve refugee mental health outcomes and enhance inclusivity, along with prosperity for refugees and host nations alike.

Author : G. Heathcote,D. Otto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400215

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Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security by G. Heathcote,D. Otto Pdf

This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and the prevalence of economic disadvantages might be addressed in post-conflict communities.

Author : Lucky Asuelime,Suzanne Francis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319060019

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Selected Themes in African Political Studies by Lucky Asuelime,Suzanne Francis Pdf

Against the background of a long and continuing record of political instability in Africa, this edited collection presents a multi-disciplinary approach to selected issues in African political studies. The contributions explore a range of political and conflict situations, discuss efforts to develop indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms and consider some of the key political and economic issues facing the continent. The specific country studies illuminate the diversity of the African continent and indicate the ways in which the political and socio-economic contexts of African states bear directly upon the ability of states to solve political and economic challenges. The volume seeks to present and promote novel analytical frameworks, conceptual approaches and empirical accounts of relevance to scholars working on Africa and to practitioners and policy makers in politics, governance and peace initiatives in Africa.

Author : Manuela Scheuermann,Anja Zürn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030218904

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Gender Roles in Peace and Security by Manuela Scheuermann,Anja Zürn Pdf

This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security. The authors analyse the implementation process of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in various countries and discuss systemic challenges concerning the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Through in-depth case studies, the authors shed new light on topics such as the gender-related mechanisms of peace processes, gender training practices for police personnel, and the importance of violence prevention. The volume studies the role of women in peace and security as well as questions of gender mainstreaming by adopting various theoretical concepts, including feminist theories, concepts of masculinity, organizational and security studies. It also highlights regional and transnational approaches for the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, namely the perspectives of the European Union, NATO, the UN bureaucracy and the civil society. It presents best cases and political advice for tackling the problem of gender inequality in peace and security.