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http://www.internationalalert.org/resources/publications/rethinking-gender-peacebuilding-colombia
GENDER & PEACEBUILDING IN
COLOMBIA: RE-EXAMINING IDENTITIES & POWER
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2014 Report:
Authors: Diana López Castañeda - Henri Myrttinen
Executive Summary:
As part of a four-country research project
on gender in peacebuilding, this report examines the case of Colombia,
where society has been deeply affected by both decades of armed conflict
as well as high levels of criminal violence. Our research approaches the
challenges of peacebuilding in Colombia from a ‘gender-relational’ angle,
which looks at men, women and trans- and intersex persons as gendered beings,
takes into account the interaction between gender identities and other
markers such as age, class, disability, marital status and the like, and
examines how these identities are constructed relationally to one another.
We approach gender not as a ‘technical’ peacebuilding issue, but as a lens
through which to analyse societal norms, identities and power dynamics.
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