Outline

This topic looks at the following questions:

To what extent are violence/conflicts and the effects of violence/conflict gendered?
In what ways are schools gendered? How are educational access, processes and outcomes gendered?
What are the gender equity challenges for education in post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding?

Lectures

Open access publications

Dynamics of gender justice, conflict and social cohesion: Analysing educational reforms in Pakistan
Citation: Durrani, N., & Halai, A. (2018). Dynamics of gender justice, conflict and social cohesion: Analysing educational reforms in Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 61, 27-39.

Russian translation: Дуррани, Н и Халаи, А. (2018) Динамика гендерной справедливости, конфликтов и социальной сплоченности: анализ образовательных реформ в Пакистане. Международный Журнал Развития Образования, 61, стр.27-39.

Gender: Topic guide
Citation: Kangas, A., Haider, H., and Fraser, E. (2014). Gender: Topic guide. Revised edition with E. Browne. Birmingham: GSDRC, University of Birmingham, UK

Masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding: Perspectives on men through a gender lens
Citation: Saferworld (2014). Masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding: Perspectives on men through a gender lens. London, Saferworld .

Reflection and discussion

Further suggested reading

Aikman, S., Halai, A., & Rubagiza, J. (2011). Conceptualising gender equality in research on education quality. Comparative Education, 47(1), 45-60.

Berry, Marie E. (2017). Barriers to women’s progress after atrocity: Evidence from Rwanda and Bosnia Herzegovina, Gender and Society 31, 6. pp. 830–853.

Casey, E.A., Carlson, J., Fraguela-Rios, C. Kimball, E., Neugut, T.B. Tolman, R. M. and Edleson, J. L. (2013) 'Context, Challenges, and Tensions in Global Efforts to Engage Men in the Prevention of Violence against Women - An Ecological Analysis', Men and Masculinities,16: 228

Halai, A. (2011). Equality or equity: Gender awareness issues in secondary schools in Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(1), 44-49.

Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). (2019). INEE Guidance Note on Gender. New York, NY.

Kirk, J. (2011), ‘Addressing gender disparities in education in contexts of crisis, post-crisis, and state fragility’, in: Mundy, K. and Dryden-Peterson, S. eds. (2011), Educating Children in Conflict Zones, pp. 67-81

Kirk, J. (2006) Education in Emergencies: The Gender Implications - Advocacy Brief. Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2006.

Large, J. (1997) Disintegration conflicts and the restructuring of masculinity, Gender & Development, 5:2, 23-30.

Leach, F., Dunne, M. and Salvi, F. (2014) School related Gender based violence: A global review of current issues and approaches in policy, programming and implementation responses to School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) for the Education Sector. New York, UNESCO.

Lopes Cardozo, M. T. A., Srimulyani, E. (2018). Analysing the spectrum of female education leaders’ agency in Islamic boarding schools in post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia. Gender and Education, 1–17.

Maclure, R. and Denov, M (2009) Reconstruction versus transformation: Post-war education and the struggle for gender equity in Sierra Leone. International Journal of Educational Development 29 (2009) 612–620

Medie, Peace A. and Kang, Alice J. (2019). Power, knowledge and the politics of gender in the Global South,’ European Journal of Politics and Gender 1 (1–2), pp. 37–54.

Moser, C. O. N. and Clark, F. C. (2001) Introduction in ‘Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence’, Zed Books, London

Parkes, J., Heslop, J., Oando, S., Sabaa^c S., Januario, F. and Figue, A (2013) Conceptualising gender and violence in research: Insights from studies in schools and communities in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 33, Issue 6, November 2013, Pages 546–556

Saferworld (2014) Masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding: Perspectives on men through a gender lens. London, Saferworld

Sudhakar, N. and Kuehnast, K (2011) The Other Side of Gender: Including Masculinity Concerns in Conflict and Peacebuilding. United States Institute of Peace, PeaceBrief 75, January 2011

Tripp, Aili Mari (2015). Women and power in post-conflict Africa. Cambridge University Press.

UN webpage on Women, Peace and Security before class: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-peace-security