African Women Peace Networks

This is not an exhaustive list of women’s organisations that have actively engaged in peace activism on the continent. This is a list of institutions that have been integral to either innovative or ‘well talked about’ peacebuilding efforts by some women’s groups and organsations on the continent.

Peace studies is a growing academic field that has its scholarly roots in international relations (IR), political science, and history. All three academic disciplines consider the nation state as a primary constitutive element of the international system and central to social stability, security, and peace. This has been heavily critiqued by IR feminists (Still, 1998; Stean 1998, among others) who associate the notion of the nation state with an embedded patriarchal system that entrenches hierarchical social relations across race, class, and gender.