Gender Peace And Security In Africa

Author : Cheryl Hendricks,Romi Sigsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315534879

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Gender, Peace and Security in Africa by Cheryl Hendricks,Romi Sigsworth Pdf

There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and security as numerous landmark anniversaries were celebrated in the field. Africa has, in many ways, been the global laboratory for the gender, peace and security agenda, not only because of the number of conflicts occurring on the continent but also because African regional organisations, governments and civil society organisations have been at the forefront of striving for gender equality and implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. This book explores gender, peace and security in Africa from multiple angles, including: the conceptual and implementation challenges and shifts around women, peace and security in Africa over the last 15 years; women’s role as combatants in national liberation forces in South Africa; the dynamics of gender in the military through the lens of Kenyan women combatants; food security through a feminist lens; and a series of case studies on the nexus between gender and security in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Somalia. This book was previously published as a special issue of the African Security Review.

Author : Funmi Olonisakin,Karen Barnes,Eka Ikpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136868085

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Women, Peace and Security by Funmi Olonisakin,Karen Barnes,Eka Ikpe Pdf

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of women in situations of armed conflict and their role in peacebuilding was placed on the agenda of the UN Security Council. It was an important step forward in terms of bringing women’s rights and gender equality to bear in the UN’s peace and security agenda. More than a decade after the adoption of this Resolution, its practical reality is yet to be substantially felt on the ground in the very societies and regions where women remain disproportionately affected by armed conflict and grossly under-represented in peace processes. This realization, in part, led to the adoption in 2008 and 2009 of three other Security Council Resolutions, on sexual violence in conflict, violence against women, and for the development of indicators to measure progress in addressing women, peace and security issues. The book draws together the findings from eight countries and four regional contexts to provide guidance on how the impact of Resolution 1325 can be measured, and how peacekeeping operations could improve their capacity to effectively engender security. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, gender studies, the United Nations, international security and IR in general.

Author : 'Funmi Olonisakin,Awino Okech
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906387891

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Women and Security Governance in Africa by 'Funmi Olonisakin,Awino Okech Pdf

Debates about security governance in Africa and about the place of women within it have moved in parallel despite their interconnection. In this book, the authors align the debates, locating African-specific and feminist analysis within the security discourse.

Author : Elisabeth Porter,Anuradha Mundkur
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780702249228

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Peace and Security by Elisabeth Porter,Anuradha Mundkur Pdf

What is being done in conflict-affected countries to advance women's participation in peace processes and decision-making? In Peace and Security: Implications for women the authors combine a broad overview with specific local knowledge to examine the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, 'Women, Peace and Security'. They present case studies from Timor-Leste, Fiji and Sri Lanka to suggest the necessary steps to protect women and girls from violence, to ensure the perspectives of women in peacekeeping are not overlooked, and to increase the participation of women in decision-making. While identifying obstacles, the emphasis is on articulating best practices in numerous contexts and outlining key actions to be taken by development agencies, women's NGOs and policy-makers. In recognising the role of women, the authors, argue the cause of peace will be better served. Through the lens of women suffering from war imposed upon them from above, and women contributing to peace processes by working collaboratively from below, Peace and Security provides practical and transferable learning opportunities for advancing women's security and women's participation in leadership roles. Book jacket.

Author : Cheryl Hendricks
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171067000

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Gender and Security in Africa by Cheryl Hendricks Pdf

This Discussion Paper explores the debates, theoretical perspectives and current trends in gender, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, and security sector reform (SSR) in Africa. It provides a broad overview of and critical insights into the gender-conflict-security nexus, capturing the trends in the discourses, identifying the gaps in the literature and prioritising issues and areas for future research. This Discussion Paper is essential reading for all those with a deep interest in gender, peace, development and security in Africa, particularly gender scholars, students, activists and practitioners.

Author : Francis Onditi,Josephine Odera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030710958

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Understanding Violence Against Women in Africa by Francis Onditi,Josephine Odera Pdf

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa. This text uses the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) on Women, Peace and Security in Eastern and Southern Africa as a framework to present the causes and impacts of VAW and to trace the journey of sub-Saharan African countries toward gender equality. It also provides an overview of the policy and legislative frameworks that underpin the progress, challenges, and achievements of addressing VAW based on four key pillars: prevention, protection, participation, and relief and recovery. Chapters provide a wealth of knowledge, as the book draws on academic literature; national, regional, and international legislations; and data collected from field research, and makes use of end-of-chapter discussion questions and quick study guides. Students will come away equipped with the tools, resources, and knowledge necessary to address and fix VAW in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Author : Louise Olsson,Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317627944

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Gender, Peace and Security by Louise Olsson,Theodora-Ismene Gizelis Pdf

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security. How should we understand women’s participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed conflict and international interventions? These questions represent central themes of protection and participation that the international community has to address in order to implement UNSCR 1325. Thus far, the implementation has often employed varying approaches related to gender mainstreaming, a third theme of the resolution. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic data which until recently has restricted the ability of researchers to evaluate the progress in implementation and impact of UNSCR 1325. By engaging with both empirics and critical theory, the authors of this edited volume make important contributions to the gender, peace and security agenda. They identify some of the problems of implementing UNSC 1325 and offer a sobering assessment of progress of implementation and insights into how to advance our understanding through systematic research. Many of the chapters are focused on operational aspects of UNSCR 1325, but all also engage with the theoretical underpinnings of UNSCR 1325 to bring forth central debates on more fundamental challenges to the development of knowledge in the fields of gender, peace and security. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Anna Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000222883

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Women and Peacebuilding in Africa by Anna Chitando Pdf

This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries. The chapters outline the history of African women’s engagement in peacebuilding, introducing new and neglected themes such as youth, disability, and religious peacebuilding, and laying the foundations for new theoretical insights. Providing case studies from across Africa, the contributors highlights the achievements and challenges characterising women’s contributions to peacebuilding on the continent. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of peacebuilding, African security and gender.

Author : University of Cape Town. Centre for Conflict Resolution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122667707

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Women and Peacebuilding in Africa by University of Cape Town. Centre for Conflict Resolution Pdf

Author : Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004257696

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Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security by Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt Pdf

In Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, editors Sara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah Teitt address the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Contributions from policy-makers and academics consider both the merits and the utility of aligning the protection agendas of R2P and WPS. A number of actionable recommendations are made concerning a unification of the agendas to best support the global empowerment of women and the prevention of mass atrocities.

Author : Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000462487

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The Women, Peace and Security Agenda by Laura J. Shepherd Pdf

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘women and peace and security’. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which elaborates or extends aspects of the original resolution. This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the WPS agenda in two halves. The first half of the book presents a series of essays that each provide a glimpse of the rich and insightful research on WPS being undertaken in and about different contexts, to demonstrate the importance of centring the "local" as a site of knowledge production in the WPS agenda. The essays presented in the second half of the book also engage questions of knowledge production, documenting the exploratory methods in use in WPS scholarship, and highlighting those topics engaged at the hinterlands of what is a broad field – topics that gesture at the future of research in this area. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Author : Terence McNamee,Monde Muyangwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030466367

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The State of Peacebuilding in Africa by Terence McNamee,Monde Muyangwa Pdf

This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; the role of women, religion, humanitarianism, grassroots organizations, and early warning systems; and the impact of global, regional, and continental bodies. The book's thematic chapters are complemented by six country/region case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan/South Sudan, Mozambique and the Sahel/Mali. Each chapter concludes with a set of key lessons learned that could be used to inform the building of a more sustainable peace in Africa. The State of Peacebuilding in Africa was born out of the activities of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), a Carnegie-funded, continent-wide network of African organizations that works with the Wilson Center to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Author : Sara E. Davies,Nicole George,Jacqui True
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429883576

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The Difference that Gender Makes to International Peace and Security by Sara E. Davies,Nicole George,Jacqui True Pdf

Fifteen years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 which establishes the Women, Peace and Security agenda, there is now a need to assess the impacts of gender equality efforts, and to understand why and how gender equality reforms have advanced to the extent that they have. This book examines how international peace and security is re-envisioned from a gender perspective by mostly focusing on the nuances presented by the Asia Pacific region. It argues that despite the diversity of political, socio-cultural and economic systems in the Asia Pacific, women and girls in the region continue to experience similar forms of insecurities. Several countries in the Asia Pacific have demonstrated relative peace and stability. In addition, women’s leadership and participation in peacebuilding are and continue to be increasingly recognized in the region too. However, as the chapters in this book demonstrate, applying a critical gender analysis allows for the interrogation of ‘veneers’ of political order which can then mask or normalise everyday gendered insecurities. The analysis of country cases such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Fiji underscores a rethinking of the political order in the Asia Pacific which leaves existing gender inequalities intact. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Author : Joan Johnson-Freese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Women and peace
ISBN : 1003413412

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Women, Peace and Security by Joan Johnson-Freese Pdf

"This book offers an accessible overview of the issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda. This new edition has been updated and includes new chapters on WPS and Environmental Change and on WPS in Regional and Security Organizations. The 2nd edition provides explains Women, Peace and Security as a security framework, different though related to both gender equality as a social justice issue or a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issue. Within the context of the changing nature of warfare, a complex and volatile global political climate, and through consideration of empirical evidence, it examines the definitions, theoretical underpinnings and methodological challenges associated with implementing WPS. It then discusses with more specificity violence against women, women civilians in war, the role of women in peacemaking, women in the military and in development, and women politicians, with new material on environmental change and on regional and security organisations. Examples and case studies draw from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North and South America. The need for more sex-disaggregated data on every topic is emphasized throughout, necessary to both demonstrate relationships between gender and security and to identify solutions to problems. The book concludes with a look to the future and number of action items from the macro to the micro level. This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, security studies, gender studies and IR, as well as professional military college students"--

Author : Joseph Adero Ngala
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031390432

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Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa by Joseph Adero Ngala Pdf