War

Death at a funeral.That`s what happened when a graveside quarrel between two relatives in Ha-Hlalele village in Maseru became fatal a fortnight ago.Serupane Malimatle,52,was bludgeon to death when he tried to prevent a relative from performing graveside ritual ahead of his senior cousin.

During this year’s 16 Days of Activism, we reflect on the many ways that women continue to be affected by conflict and violence. In post-conflict situations, war-related violence against women often continues in subtle ways. Landmines are a continuing problem for many post-conflict African countries, and women are often at increased risk due to their role in traditional society.

This DVD is an educational resource for faith-based and secular peace advocates and journalists about the importance of telling stories. Being equipped to communicate for peace means knowing how to listen, see and speak in ways that contribute to conflict resolution and to creating the conditions for sustainable peace. It is available form The United Church Resource Distribution Centre at +1 416 253 5456 (Toronto, Canada)

The terror threat facing the 2010 FIFA tournament in South Africa is altogether more serious. It revolves around the possibility that an Al Qaeda aligned movement may use the tournament as a platform upon which to launch a massive strike against a Western target in South Africa. The fact that every global news and press agency will converge in South Africa will magnify the impact of any attack. But will such global news coverage be a further factor that would make a terror attack on the World Cup a very attractive proposition for Al Qaeda? Sameera Bamath reports.

JOS Nigeria- thousands of women dressed in black marched through the streets of Nigeria’s central city of Jos yesterday to mourn last weekend’s slaughters of more than 100 Christians.

This note is intended to assist UNDP practitioners to develop conflict-sensitive democratic governance programming before, during and after armed conflict by prtoviding a) debates on intended and unintended effects of democratic governance interventions b) some the main challenges and opportunities about which we have learned and c) examples of practical tools and resources that can guide us

This report emanates from an exploratory study conducted in 2009 by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), in collaboration with the Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation. With a focus on Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan, the study solicited views and perspectives on the role that natural resources and the environment can play in complex conflict situations

The article presents a thematic analysis of Israeli newspaper coverage of women during the Yom Kippur War (1973), an 18-day total war by Israel against Egypt and Syria. It suggests that despite the existential danger and the urgent need for human resources, the journalistic discourse supported exclusion of women from the public sphere in general, and from military mobilization in particular. The study demonstrates that newspapers employed several gender-biased discourse strategies that framed Israeli women as weak and hysterical, and sometimes even as “beasts” or “the enemy from within.À These discursive strategies served to represent woman as inept citizens and soldiers and, at the same time, to condemn them for not taking an active part in the collective effort.

Welcome to another publication in the Gender Forum series! This volume presents the deliberations of a two day Strategic Planning Workshop that was organised by Isis-WICCE in September 2005 to deliberate on women’s contributions towards peace building in Africa and how their efforts could be supported. The workshop was also to review the task done by Isis-WICCE of documenting successful women’s peace initiatives in Africa that highlighted the uniqueness and best practices under conflict, peace and security.