Short Abstract

This panel examines armed conflict and peacebuilding in Africa, with particular attention to Mozambique, through feminist, ecofeminist, decolonial and intersectional lenses. It welcomes analyses of violence, governance, environmental justice, local agency and international interventions.

Long Abstract

This panel explores critical theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches to the study of armed conflicts and peacebuilding in Africa., with particular attention to Mozambique. It invites contributions examining the dynamics of violence, state and regional and international responses, local peace initiatives and the environmental impacts of conflict, insecurity and extractive development processes thought feminist, ecofeminist, decolonial and intersectional perspectives. The panel is especially interested in analyses of the role of local communities and civil society the intersections between conflict, environmental justice and resource governance, the production of knowledge on war and peace within the global peacebuilding agenda and the involvement of international and regional actors, including the United Nations, the African Union, SADAC, the European Union and major powers in Mozambique and other African contexts. Empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome that advance a situated, plural and context-sensitive understanding of conflict, peacebuilding and gender and socio-environmental transformation in African contexts.

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