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Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107115576
This book explains why women's rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.
Author : Josephine Beoku-Betts,Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786996954
Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment. This is in marked contrast to other post-conflict countries, which have increased the political participation of women in elected and appointed office, increased the representation of women in leadership positions, and enacted constitutional reforms promoting women's rights. Written by Sierra Leonean and Africanist scholars and experts from a broad range of disciplines, this unique volume analyses the historical and contextual factors influencing women's political, economic and social development in the country. In drawing on a diverse array of case studies – from health to education, refugees to international donors – the contradictions, successes and challenges of women's lives in a post-conflict environment are revealed, making this an essential book for anyone involved in women and development.
Author : Marie E. Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416184
While dominant narratives emphasize war's destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women's political mobilization.
Author : Fatma Osman Ibnouf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030261955
This book provides a nuanced understanding of an often neglected aspect of armed conflicts, namely the everyday structures that sustain lives during crises and, specifically, care-work performed by women. It showcases the work of women as key protagonists and stresses their role as knowledge producers in studies of conflict. The author brings an original voice to the literature on women in conflict and peace-building showing the unpaid and less visible care-work that women do in the context of conflict and post-conflict and peacebuilding in Africa.
Author : Balghis Badri,Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783609109
Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women's rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women's movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women's rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.
Author : Sheila Meintjes,Anu Pillay,Meredeth Turshen
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X006135324
What happens to women in the aftermath of war and internal conflict? This book asserts that the post-war period is too late for women to transform patriarchal gender relations; the foundations for change must be built during conflict. The Contributors analyze what women endure and what they construct during and after conflict, what obstacles they encounter in their search for autonomy and what bonds of solidarity they create in building peace.
Author : Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781601270641
In consideration of UN Resolution 1325 (which called for women's equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women's participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence.
Author : 'Funmi Olonisakin,Awino Okech
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906387891
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 : Anne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838263861
In the early 2000s, Liberian women wearing wrap skirts and white T-shirts, shouting: ‘We want peace, no more war’, attracted international attention. After almost fifteen years of civil war, the enduring active, multifaceted, and non-violent campaigning for peace by women’s organisations contributed to the end of the fighting and the signing of a peace agreement between the warring factions. Although it is widely assumed that women’s inclusion in peace processes yields greater attention to women’s issues and needs in the aftermath of a conflict, this is only partly the case in Liberia. Thus, this analysis looks beyond the extraordinary commitment by women in Liberia and deals with the questions to what extent their role in the peace process has contributed to gender-sensitive outcomes in post-conflict Liberian society and why greater gender sensitivity was not achieved. By focusing on manifestations of patterns of masculinity in the public and private spheres, Anne Theobald identifies factors at different levels of analysis within different time frames that elucidate the unexpected outcome. Not only does this provide for a more encompassing understanding of dynamics of gender relations and context-specific variables impeding gender sensitivity in post-conflict settings, but it also helps to refine prevailing theoretical approaches on gender in peacemaking and peacebuilding and to develop more holistic, context-specific, and efficient policy approaches, which can effectively lead to gender-sensitive peace.
Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 3030280985
This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.
Author : Liv Tønnessen
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847012817
A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa.
Author : Meredeth Turshen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317636557
Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through community relations and the education of children Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework. This framework employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum—a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in women’s reproductive lives. These analyses come together to create a new explanation of why violence persists, a new political economy of violence against women, and a new theoretical understanding of the relation between production and reproduction. Three case studies are discussed: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (violence in an era of conflict), Sierra Leone (violence post-conflict), and Tanzania (which has not seen armed conflict on the mainland). This book fills a significant gap on the political economy of war and women/gender for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in African Studies, Gender Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Author : Munyaradzi Mawere,Ngonidzashe Marongwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956764488
This volume critically interrogates, from different angles and dimensions, the resilience of conflict and violence into 21st century Africa. The demise of European colonial administration in Africa in the 1960s wielded fervent hope for enduring peace for the people of Africa. Regrettably, conflict alongside violence in all its dimensions physical, religious, political, psychological and structural remain unabated and occupy central stage in contemporary Africa. The resilience of conflict and violence on the continental scene invokes unsettling memories of the past while negatively influencing the present and future of crafting inclusive citizenship and statehood. The book provides fresh insightful ethnographic and intellectual material for rethinking violence and conflict, and for fostering long-lasting peace and political justice on the continent and beyond. With its penetrating focus on conflict and associated trajectories of violence in Africa, the book is an inestimable asset for conflict management practitioners, political scientists, historians, civil society activists and leaders in economics and politics as well as all those interested in the affairs of Africa.
Author : Dyan E. Mazurana,Susan R. McKay,International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
Publisher : International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development 1999.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029051708
Author : Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : War crimes
ISBN : 160127064X
In consideration of UN Resolution 1325 (which called for women's equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women's participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence.
