Video | The thematic issue ‘Gender in Peacebuilding’ presented by Elisabeth Prügl, in 2′

Elisabeth Prügl introduces the 13th thematic issue of International Development Policy ‘Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria‘. Professor Elisabeth Prügl is Guest Editor of this thematic issue and Co-director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute.

Gender, age, class, ethnicity, religion and political ideologies all matter in peacebuilding. Adopting a feminist approach, this analyses such intersecting differences in local contexts to develop a better understanding of how intersectionally gendered dynamics shape and are shaped by peacebuilding. Findings are presented from a six-year collaborative research project that, involving scholars from Indonesia, Nigeria and Switzerland, investigated peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria. The authors identify a number of logics that highlight how gender is deployed strategically or asserts itself inadvertently through gender stereotypes, gendered divisions of labour, or identity constructions.

Read the book in open access: https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.4494

Prügl, E., C. Rigual, R. Kunz, M. Achakpa, H. Myrttinen, J. Onyesoh, A. Rahmawati, W. Udasmoro (eds.) (2021) Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 13 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4494 | Order your paperback copy