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The November 2013 issue of the
international journal Gender & Development, (published for
Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, www.tandfonline.com/gad) will look at
Conflict and Violence from a gender justice and women’s rights perspective. G&D is currently read in over 90
countries, published as an online/print journal at www.tandfonline.com/gad. Content is
also free online at www.genderanddevelopment.org
Women and girls – and men and boys –
face violence, including gender-based violence, in times of conflict and formal
‘peace’, and in urban and rural settings. This issue will bring together case studies
of development and humanitarian work that address conflict and violence,
integrating feminist analysis of causes and solutions. ‘Mainstreaming’ gender
justice and women’s rights is essential if women and girls are to play a full
and recognised role as citizens, in ending violence, building formal and
informal peace processes, and defining human security from a gender justice
perspective.
This issue hopes to explore some of the
key issues in grounded case studies of real experience of this wide range of
concerns. We hope to focus on – among
other issues -
·
women’s role in conflict
resolution and peace and reconstruction within communities and at national
level, exploring how this has addressed violence from a gender equality
perspective
·
case study examples of
women’s organisations – from the grassroots to national and international
movements/networks – in advocacy and campaigning at household, national, and
international level
·
responses to gender-based
violence – case studies of approaches which have made a difference to levels of
violence, offered protection to survivors, changed legislation, policy
responses, attitudes, etc.
·
gendered conflict
prevention techniques with grassroots communities, problematising violent
masculinities and working with young men on the ground to challenge conflict as
a norm
·
evaluations of the impact
of development/humanitarian work on conflict and violence on the ground
·
analyses of the
intersections between gender-based violence and economic poverty, age,
ethnicity, caste, and other social identities including disability and HIV etc.
·
new thinking on programming
in urban areas; in so-called ‘failed states’; on analysing conflict and
violence along a peacetime-to-armed conflict continuum which enables us to
understand these dynamics better and respond to the realities of populations,
households and gendered individuals living within them.
Development
and feminist policymakers and practitioners, and researchers, are all invited
to share insights in this issue of Gender
& Development. Please send a paragraph outlining your
proposed idea for an article for this issue to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk as soon as possible, and before the
commissioning deadline: 15 January 2013. If we are able to offer space
for your contribution, we will write to you by 25 January 2013 to say so. Commissioned articles will need to be
completed for a deadline of 15 April 2013.
G&D has an editorial policy of publishing in clear, jargon-free English, in
order to be of use to the widest possible readership. All
articles need to be based on first-hand experience, or research on-the-ground
in particular country contexts, and have direct relevance to development policy
and practice. Don’t
worry if you have not written for a journal – we will help you with style and
language!
For full guidelines and more information on the journal visit www.genderanddevelopment.org