Gender, Peace and Security in Africa
There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. One of those moments for women, peace and security was in 2015 as numerous landmark anniversaries were celebrated in the field. Africa has, in many ways, been the global laboratory for the gender, peace and security agenda, not only because of the number of conflicts occurring on the continent but also because African regional organisations, governments and civil society organisations have been at the forefront of striving for gender equality and implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. This book explores gender, peace and security in Africa from multiple angles, including the conceptual and implementation challenges and shifts around women, peace and security in Africa over the last 15 years; women's role as combatants in national liberation forces in South Africa; the dynamics of gender in the military through the lens of Kenyan women combatants; food security through a feminist lens; and a series of case studies on the nexus between gender and security in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Somalia. This book was previously published as a special issue of the African Security Review.
Cheryl Hendricks is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has worked in the field of gender, peace and security, and security sector governance, for well over a decade. She has worked extensively with civil society organisations on gender and security.
Romi Sigsworth is the Editor of the African Security Review and a Gender Specialist at the Institute for Security Studies. She has worked on various gender-related topics in South Africa and on the African continent for a decade.
Gender, Peace and Security in Africa
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Contents
Romi Sigsworth and Cheryl Hendricks
Cheryl Hendricks
'Funmi Olonisakin, Cheryl Hendricks and Awino Okech
Siphokazi Magadla
Mokua Ombati
Desiree Lewis
Netsai Mushonga
Tosin Akinjobi-Babatunde
Gaby Razafindrakoto
Yolanda Sadie
Hawa Noor Mohamm
The chapters in this book were originally published in the African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Romi Sigsworth and Cheryl Hendricks
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 361363
Women, peace and security in Africa: Conceptual and implementation challenges and shifts
Cheryl Hendricks
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 364375
The convergence and divergence of three pillars of influence in gender and security
'Funmi Olonisakin, Cheryl Hendricks and Awino Okech
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 376389
Women combatants and the liberation movements in South Africa: Guerrilla girls, combative mothers and the in-betweeners
Siphokazi Magadla
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 390402
Feminine masculinities in the military: The case of female combatants in the Kenya Defence Forces' operation in Somalia
Mokua Ombati
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 403413
Gender, feminism and food studies: A critical review
Desiree Lewis
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 414429
A case study of gender and security sector reform in Zimbabwe
Netsai Mushonga
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 430437
Women police in the Nigerian security sector
Tosin Akinjobi-Babatunde
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 438444
Madagascar: Paving the way to national fampihavanana and lasting peace
Gaby Razafindrakoto
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 445449
Sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Yolanda Sadie
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 450457
Kenya and Somalia: Fragile constitutional gains for women and the threat of patriarchy
Hawa Noor Mohammed
African Security Review, volume 24, issue 4 (November 2015) pp. 458474
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Tosin Akinjobi-Babatunde is a Lecturer in the Department of History and International Relations at Elizade University, Ondo, Nigeria.
Cheryl Hendricks is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Desiree Lewis is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape.
Siphokazi Magadla is a Lecturer in the Political and International Studies Department at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Netsai Mushonga is an independent development consultant.
Hawa Noor Mohammed is a gender, peace and security researcher based in Nairobi.
Awino Okech is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Politics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
