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Annika Björkdahl

Annika Björkdahl

Professor

Annika Björkdahl

A Gender-Just Peace: Exploring the Post-Dayton Peace Process

Author

  • Annika Björkdahl

Summary, in English

This article is rooted in the understanding that global ideas of liberal democratic peace and the gendered dynamics of peacebuilding need to be confronted. The aim is to explore the challenges of localizing liberal democratic peace by exploring efforts such as those undertaken by women’s organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina to promote a gender-just peace. The Dayton Peace Accord was the new “social contract” that set the standard for postwar societies. The gendered hierarchies built into this peace and the absence of women in the peace process created a “peace gap” that was gendered despite the fact that gender empowerment has become a standard tool in international peacebuilding. The post-Dayton peace process was characterized by a conservative backlash which has become a hallmark of women’s postwar experience.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

286-317

Publication/Series

Peace and Change: Journal of Peace Research

Volume

37

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • gender
  • peace
  • peacebuilding
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • gender-just peace
  • localization

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1468-0130