It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges
Publisher: Insight on Africa
Author(s): Heidi Hudson
Date: 2021
Topics: Conflict Causes, Gender, Peace and Security Operations
The article draws attention to the consequences of simplistically equating gender, sex and women when doing peacebuilding. Drawing on the ambivalent nature of security architecture interventions from the African continent, I make a case for keeping a variety of conceptual approaches to gender mainstreaming in mind in order to avoid a narrow fixation on adding women.