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SOUTH SUDAN - OPPORTUNITIES FOR
GENDER JUSTICE & RECONCILIATION
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Via Eldis - This policy brief explores the nexus of gender justice and reconciliation in South Sudan. It addresses women’s historical engagement in reconciliation processes in the country at grassroots and national levels, and highlights their achievements to date. It then discusses the challenges to inclusion South Sudanese women face, as well as current opportunities to achieve true reconciliation by actualising gender justice and equality – particularly through effective integration of women into the peace and reconciliation process.
Opportunities for Gender Justice &
Reconciliation in South Sudan
Authors:
Bubenzer,F.; Lacey,E.
Produced by: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa (2013)
The publication concludes with a set of recommendations to civil
society, community leaders, and the government. The following
are among the recommendations and suggested interventions:
To the Government of South Sudan:
- Focus on gender reconciliation
and restorative justice as a means of helping women to transcend their
trauma and rebuild their lives and relationships.
- Initiate a national
acknowledgement-of-harm-and-wrong-done campaign, to ensure that all South
Sudanese citizens feel acknowledged for their contribution and sacrifice
in the pursuit of an independent South Sudan.
To Civil Society:
- Design a mechanism allowing
women in distant/remote women’s groups to share and document their
experiences. For example, in Uganda, the Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural
Exchange (WICCE) set up three rural information units equipped with
reading material, a tape recorder and tapes, for women to record both
human rights violations and community success stories.
- Train citizens to access and
add data to the South Sudan Protection Cluster situation map, and create
categories of violations, including gender-based violence (GBV) and other
crimes.
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