Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration: Gendered Inequalities in Liberia and Nepal

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Michanne Steenbergen (OC&C Strategy Consultants, UK)

Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration

Gendered Inequalities in Liberia and Nepal

Michanne Steenbergen (OC&C Strategy Consultants, UK)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Regional studies; Development studies; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics

"Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration investigates the role of United Nations-led Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in undermining female ex-combatants’ empowerment.

The participation of female combatants in conflict has increasingly been recognized in feminist literatures and in policies and programs concerned with reintegrating ex-combatants and building peace. This has illustrated that female ex-combatants often experience ""empowerment"" through their role as combatant; however, this empowerment is often lost upon reintegration. UN-led DDR plays an important role in the broader peacebuilding process, as it is one of the largest interventions and directly aims to reintegrate ex-combatants into civilian life. This book draws on extensive field research and interviews with female ex-combatants and DDR officials in Liberia and Nepal to develop a nuanced and comprehensive picture of female ex-combatants’ empowerment and how this is undermined by DDR. Through reconceptualized frameworks of empowerment and an emancipatory peace, the book explores the pivotal role that DDR programs play in undermining female ex-combatants’ empowerment. The author argues that this is detrimental to peacebuilding, because DDR officials and documentation narrate female ex-combatants in limited and gendered ways, which reproduces gendered inequalities and define how female ex-combatants should behave.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners working on gender, conflict, peace, security, and development."

By: Michanne Steenbergen (OC&C Strategy Consultants UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781032160344
ISBN 10: 1032160349
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michanne Steenbergen is an Associate Consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants, UK. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, UK. She also volunteers as an International Liaison Coordinator at Interventions for Advocacy and Effective Community Engagements (IFACE), an NGO in Liberia.