In the early 2000s, Liberian women wearing wrap skirts and white
T-shirts, shouting: 'We want peace, no more war', attracted
international attention. After almost fifteen years of civil war,
the enduring active, multifaceted, and non-violent campaigning for
peace by women's organisations contributed to the end of the
fighting and the signing of a peace agreement between the warring
factions. Although it is widely assumed that women's inclusion in
peace processes yields greater attention to women's issues and
needs in the aftermath of a conflict, this is only partly the case
in Liberia. Thus, this analysis looks beyond the extraordinary
commitment by women in Liberia and deals with the questions to what
extent their role in the peace process has contributed to
gender-sensitive outcomes in post-conflict Liberian society and why
greater gender sensitivity was not achieved.
By focusing on manifestations of patterns of masculinity in the
public and private spheres, Anne Theobald identifies factors at
different levels of analysis within different time frames that
elucidate the unexpected outcome. Not only does this provide for a
more encompassing understanding of dynamics of gender relations and
context-specific variables impeding gender sensitivity in
post-conflict settings, but it also helps to refine prevailing
theoretical approaches on gender in peacemaking and peacebuilding
and to develop more holistic, context-specific, and efficient
policy approaches, which can effectively lead to gender-sensitive
peace.
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