Research Catalog

Title

Women and peacebuilding in Africa / edited by Ladan Affi, Liv Tønnessen & Aili Mari Tripp.

Publication

• Suffolk : James Currey, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Affi, Ladan
• Tønnessen, Liv, 1978-
• Tripp, Aili Mari

Description

xii, 186 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and relegated to the sidelines as observers or limited to informal peacebuilding strategies. Yet there is enormous potential in these strategies as women often strive to build bridges across political, ethnic, religious, clan and other differences through alliances arising from common concerns around violence, land, access to resources, and protection of their families and communities, and address sources of conflict at both national and local levels. Drawing on cutting-edge research by scholars and women's rights activists in South Sudan, Sudan, Algeria, northern Nigeria, and Somalia, this book focuses on the consequences of the continuing exclusions of women from peace talks and from post-conflict governance structures. The case studies reveal how peacebuilding is gendered and why this matters in developing meaningful and sustainable approaches to peacebuilding. Examining how women activists have made a difference through informal peacebuilding activities, the contributors explore women's efforts to reshapethe post-conflict context by struggling for legislative and constitutional reforms and by advocating for political representation and political inclusion more generally within peacebuilding processes. They also look at how women have pushed back against the conservative Islamist forces that today dominate much armed conflict in Africa. Suggesting that women's formal participation in peace negotiations is vital in bringing about an end to conflict and preventing its resumption, as well as the one of the most effective strategies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and NGOs involved in development, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Series Statement

African issues

Uniform Title

African issues.

Alternative Title

Women and peacebuilding in Africa

Subject

• Women in peace-building > Africa
• Peace-building > Africa
• Women in peace-building
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (159-180) and index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1943

ISBN

• 1847012817
• 9781847012814
• 1847012825
• 9781847012821

LCCN

2021289933

OCLC

1246626675

Title

Women and peacebuilding in Africa / edited by Ladan Affi, Liv Tønnessen & Aili Mari Tripp.

Publisher

Suffolk : James Currey, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African issues

African issues.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (159-180) and index.

Added Author

Affi, Ladan, editor.

Tønnessen, Liv, 1978- editor.

Tripp, Aili Mari, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1943