Women, Peace, and Security in Africa – Peace Ibekwe
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2023-06-20

Presentation from Session 8 of our Emerging Security Sector Leaders Seminar

The work of several Africans who have won the Nobel Peace Prize illustrates how gender perspectives shape security. In 2011, the former Liberian president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and the civil society activist, Leymah Gbowee, won the prize for their efforts to foster peace after years of civil war. In 2018, Denis Mukwege of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) won the prize for his medical and advocacy work to “end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” As these examples show, men and women alike have stakes in addressing security challenges with a gender perspective. Gender is often equated with women, but gender sensitivity actually means weighing the needs, contributions, and perspectives of men and boys as well as women and girls.

Some notable ways that gender influences the security sector include: 
• Dynamics of violence and peace
• Realization of citizen and human security.
• National security, security governance, and security sector reform

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