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Chapter two presents a gender-responsive conflict analysis to better focus on opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding. It examines relational and structural causes of the conflict, and how they affect women’s peacebuilding roles. Three relational conflict archetypes are presented: gender-based othering, warrior manhood identity formation, and gender-based violence. All these archetypes help to institutionalize a culture of violence. They affect issues of esteem, control, affiliation, power, and status that create and sustain conflict. They also define structures for peacebuilding, which often consider women’s efforts as less important. These structural barriers to women’s participation relate to land, livestock, and political structures.
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Ogega, J. (2022). Gender-Responsive Conflict Analysis. In: Women, Religion, and Peace-Building . Human Rights Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89727-7_2
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