Abstract
In the last two decades, Africa has witnessed series of wars and ethno-religious conflicts with devastating impact on women. Various atrocities against women have been recorded during these conflicts and these developments have created a dangerous dimension against non-combatant women in the continent. In an attempt to resolve the conflict and armed conflict on women in the areas of sexual and gender-based violence, series of peace missions and peace building mechanism were put in place. Despite the various peace negotiations, evidence has shown that women are largely absent from formal peace negotiations and their voices are not heard both at local and continental levels especially within the modern-day challenges and post conflict development. In fact, the transformation agenda of post-conflict peace negotiations routinely failed to consider the gendered causes and consequences of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. It is against this backdrop that this paper attempts to reassess the ambivalent role of women in conflict management in Africa. More importantly, the paper argues that there is need to increase women’s participation in peace talks, planning of demilitarisation, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and determining governance and security structures, especially in conflict prone areas. Ultimately, the paper seeks to also identify challenges hindering the role and the participation of women in post conflict development in Africa.
Keywords
Feminist; Post conflict; Gender; Violence; Womanism; Conflict Escalation
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Omotosho, M. (2018), A Feminist Perspective and the Challenge of Post Conflict Development in Africa . International Journal For Empirical Education and Research, 2(7), 19-36.
Omotosho, M. (2018) "A Feminist Perspective and the Challenge of Post Conflict Development in Africa ", International Journal For Empirical Education and Research, 2(7), pp.19-36.
Omotosho, M.. A Feminist Perspective and the Challenge of Post Conflict Development in Africa . International Journal For Empirical Education and Research. 2018; 2(7): 19-36.
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Omotosho, M.. A Feminist Perspective and the Challenge of Post Conflict Development in Africa . International Journal For Empirical Education and Research. 2018; 2(7): 19-36.
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