Gender and wars in Africa – Overviews

Apeadu, Nana

1993
An ignored population: Female-headed households among refugees in Africa, in: Mencher, Joan P. / Okongwu, Anne (eds.): Where did all the men go? Female-headed/female-supported households in cross-cultural perspective, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 171-191.

Barker, G. / Ricardo, C.

2005
Young men and the construction of masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa, Implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict and violence, Social Development Papers: Conflict, Prevention and Reconstruction, no. 26, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

Bennett, Olivia / Bexley, Jo / Warnock, Kitty (eds.)

1995
Arms to fight, arms to protect, women speak out about conflict, Panos, London.

Bouta, Tsjeard / Frerks, Georg / Hughes, Bib

2005
Gender and peacemaking in the Westafrican context, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, ‘Clingendael’, Conflict Research Unit, The Hague.

Brittain, Victoria

2002
Women and war in crisis zones, One key to Africa’s wars of underdevelopment, Working Paper, London School of Economics, Development Research Centre, London.

Das, Veena / Kleinman, Arthur / Ramphele, Mamphela / Reynolds, Pamela et al. (eds.)

2001
Remaking a world, Violence, social suffering, and recovery, University of California Press, Berkeley.

El-Bushra, Judy

2000
Transforming conflict, Some thoughts on a gendered understanding of conflict processes, in: Jacobs, Susie / Jacobson, Ruth / Marchbank, Jen (eds.): States of conflict, Gender, violence and resistance, Zed Books, London, S.66-86.
2003
Fused in combat, Gender relations and armed conflict, in: Development in Practice, vol. 13, no. 2-3, S.252-265.

El-Bushra, Judy / El-Karib, Asha / Hadjipateras, Angela

2002
Gender sensitive programme design and planning in conflict affected situations, Research Report, Acord, London.

El-Bushra, Judy / Mukarubuga, Cécile

1995
Women, war and transition, in: Gender and Development, vol. 3, no. 3, S.16-22.

El-Bushra, Judy / Pisa-Lopez, Eugenia

1994
Gender, war and food, in: Macrae, Joanna / Zwi, Anthony (eds.): War and hunger, rethinking international response to complex emergencies, Zed Books, London, S.180-193.

El-Bushra, Judy / Sahl, Ibrahim

2005
Cycles of violence, Gender relations and armed conflict, ACORD Publications, London.

Farr, Vanessa

2000
‘The pain of violence is a powerful silencer’, African women writing about conflict, in: Canadian Journal of Women`s Studies, vol. 19, S.102-107.

Graybill, Lyn

2007
Peacekeepers in Africa and gender violence,SSRC.

Higate, Paul

2004
Men, masculinities and peacekeeping in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Karamé, Kari (ed.): Gender and peacebuilding in Africa, Training for Peace Programme, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo, S.67-90.

Higate, Paul / Henry, Marsha

2004
Engendering (in)security in peace support operations, in: Security Dialogue, vol. 35, no. 4, S.481-498.

Hudson, Heidi

2004
Gender and the globalisation of violence, The treacherous terrain of privatised peacekeeping, in: Agenda, no. 59, S.42-55.
2005
Peacekeeping trends and their gender implications for regional peacekeeping forces in Africa, Progress and challenges, in: Mazurana, Dyan E. / Raven-Roberts, Angela / Parpart, Jane L. (eds.): Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping, Rowman and Littlefield Lanham, S.111-133.

ICRC

2006
Violence against girls in Africa, Girls vulnerability to violence during armed conflict and crisis, written by Florence Tercier Holst-Roness, ICRC Publications, Geneva.

International Alert (IA) / AWORD

2002
Report on the workshop on conflict transformation in Africa, African women’s perspective, IA/AWORD, London.

International Crisis Group

2006
Beyond victimhood, Women’s peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda, Africa Report, no. 112, International Crisis Group, Nairobi/Brussels.

Jacobs, Susie / Jacobson, Ruth / Marchbank, Jen (eds.)

2000
States in conflict, Gender violence and resistance, Zed Books, London.

Lamphear, John

1998
Brothers in arms, Military aspects of East African age-class systems in historical perspective, in: Kurimoto, Eisei / Simonse, Simon (eds.): Conflict, age and power in North-East Africa, Age systems in transtition, James Currey, Oxford, S.79-97.

Lazarus, Alison

2000
African and feminist approaches to peace education, Meeting on the margins, in: Conflict Prevention Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 2, S.10-12.

Karamé, Kari

2004
Gender and peacebuilding in Africa, Training for Peace Programme, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo.

Kumar, Krishna (ed.)

2001
Women and civil war - Impact, organisations, and action, Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

MacDonald P. / Ardener, A. (eds.)

1987
Images of women in peace and war: Cross-cultural perspectives, London.

Maloba, Wunyabari

2007
African women in revolution, Africa World Press, Trenton.

Maß, Sandra

2006
Weiße Helden, schwarze Krieger, Zur Geschichte kolonialer Männlichkeit in Deutschland, 1918-1964, Böhlau Verlag, Hamburg.

Mbou, Fatou / Webb, Douglas

2007
HIV/AIDS affected children in conflict settings and parliamentarian inaction, in: Conflict Trends, vol. 1, S.48-54.

McKay, Susan / Mazurana, Dyan

2004
Where are the girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique, Their lives during and after war, Publications of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, Montreal.

Meintjes, Sheila / Pillay, Anu / Turshen, Meredeth (eds.)

2001
The aftermath, Women in post-conflict transformation, Zed Books, London

Moothoo-Padayachie, Nitasha

2004
Women at the peace table, in: Agenda, no. 59, S.56-58.

Moser, Caroline / Clark, Fiona (eds.)

2001
Victims, perpetrators or actors? Gender, armed conflict and political violence, Zed Books, London

Muthien, Bernedette

2000
Human security paradigms through a gendered lens, in: Agenda, no. 43, S.46-56.

Ocaya-Lakidi, Dent

1979
Manhood, warriorhood and sex in Eastern Africa, in: Journal of Asian and African Studies, S.134.-165.

Oloka-Onyango, J.

1996
The plight of the larger half, Human rights, gender violence and the legal status of refugee and internally displaced women in Africa, in: The Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, vol. 24, no. 2-3, S.349-394.

Omarjee, Nadia / Lau, Ursula

2005
Conflicts in Africa, Intersectionality of gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, POWA, Johannesburg.

Onyinye Nkechi

2007
Civilian protection in African peacekeeping, A gender perspective, in: Conflict Trends, 4, S.16-22.

Sideris, Tina

2000
Rape in war and peace, some thoughts on social contexts and gender roles, in: Agenda, no. 43, s.41-45.

Tadesse, Z.

1989
African women’s report, Post-conflict reconstrution in Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, ECA, Addis Abeba.

Tamale, Sylvia

1996
Taking the beast by its horns, Formal resistance to women`s oppression in Africa, in: Africa Today, vol. 22, no. 4, S.5-21.

Turshen, Meredeth / Twagiramariya, Clothilde (eds.)

1998
What women do in wartime, Gender and conflict in Africa, Zed Books, London.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

2001
Women’s land and property rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction, UNIFEM Publications, New York.
2005
Women and Peace Building in Africa, Seminar Report, UNIFEM Publication, New York.
2006
Beyond numbers, Supporting women’s political participation and promoting gender equality in post-conflict governance in Africa, A review of the role of the UNIFEM, UNIFEM, New York.

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

1996
Women and the peace process, Perspectives from Africa, Addis Abeba.
1998
African women’s report 1998, Post conflict reconstruction in Africa, A gender perspective, Addis Abeba.
2001
5 years after Beijing, What efforts in favour of African women? Assessing women’s participation in the peace process, Addis Abeba.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) / UNESCO et al.

2001
Best practices in peace buildung and non-violent conflict resolution, Some documented African Women’s Peace Initiatives, UNHCR/UNESCO Publication, Geneva/Paris.

Urdang, Stephanie

1984
Women in national liberation movements, in: Hay, Margaret / Stichter,Sharon (eds.): African Women South of the Sahara, Longman Publishers, London, S.156-169.

Vickers, Jeanne

1993
Women and war, Zed Books, London.

Vincent, L.

2001
Engendering peace in Africa, A critical enquiry to some current thinking on the role of African women in peace building, in: African Journal for Conflict Resolution, 1.

Zdunnek, Gabriele

1997
Geschlechterverhältnisse in ethnischen Konflikten und Bürgerkriegen, in: Peripherie, No. 68, S.24-39.

Zimprich, Elke

1996
Ex-Kombattantinnen, Erfahrungen mit der Reintegration in Äthiopien, Eritrea und Uganda, in: EPD-Entwicklungspolitik, 3, S.r-x.

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