Women continue to face significant barriers to full participation in peace processes during and after conflict. Although the post-conflict moment creates a window of opportunity for redressing structural economic inequalities, the opportunity is often squandered. Only a multi-sectoral approach that closely links women’s economic empowerment to political and social empowerment can translate national and international […]
Women and gender contestations have been central to both revolutionary and counter-revolutionary processes in Egypt since the beginning of the protest movement in January 2011. However, Egyptian women have a long history of political participation in opposition parties, trade unions, social movements and feminist organizations. Nadje Al-Ali explores women’s roles and involvement in the protest […]
Dr. Mnisi Weeks discusses the political economy of rural South Africa, drawing from the ethnographic research she conducted for her book Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa. Her research reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures grounded in severe neglect and harm by the state have resulted in a […]
This paper briefly explores issues around development, equity, gender, health, poverty and militarization in the West African sub-region and asks whether there are links between these concepts in the sub-region that merit further exploration. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261637329_Development_Equity_Gender_Health_Poverty_and_MIlitarization_Is_there_a_link_in_the_countries_of_West_Africa_Response_to_Amina_Mama
This paper outlines how The Nigerian military state used gender politics for its own ends, exploiting opportunities afforded by international concern with women. Through a series of high profile programs, they neutralized the potentially subversive and inherently antimilitarist notion of women’s liberation, and propagated a gender politics which normalized military rule. https://www.jstor.org/stable/524824
Tricia Gloria Nabaye hosts Roline Tusiime – Research Associate – GLISS, Naima Isa – Feminist Lawyer & Program Associate – FIDA Uganda and Hilda Nsimiire – Research Fellow – GLISS. To discuss the women’s perspective on peace and security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m22yuve_uh0
