The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether there are indications that the way women are included in peace processes has a meaningful impact on the level of sustainability in the outcome of the peace process. This is a discussion that is relevant in the fields of political science, peace and conflict and sustainability. This study presents earlier work that claims the importance of women in peace processes, but as mentioned before, it has been hard to find answers of how the women are supposed to be included to make the most efficient contribution to sustainable peace. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the discussion of the “how” in the said importance of women’s participation in peace processes. It’s based on feminist and civil society theories about the need of inclusion as a basis for durable peace and tries to answer the research questions that are: 1. In what ways have women been included in the Liberia (2003) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (2002) peace processes? 2. Do the ways in which women have been included differ in the above-mentioned cases and does it affect the level of sustainability of the peace agreements? It is done with the help of a comparative case study and addresses the Liberia peace process (2003), defined as a successful case and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) peace process (2002), defined as an unsuccessful case. The cases are above all compared with the help of secondary sources; studies made of the peace processes of these countries. When the comparison is made, the thesis finds ambiguous answers to the questions. Women in unofficial roles seems to contribute more to sustainable peace than women in official roles.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-423511 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Fedai, Kristina |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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