Women’s overlooked contribution to Rwanda’s state-building conversations

IF 1.1 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2021-07-04 DOI:10.1080/14678802.2021.1974699
David Mwambari, Barney Walsh, ’. Olonisakin
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ABSTRACT This paper does not directly engage the state-formation, political settlement and state-building debates in Africa but it foregrounds the notion of conversation as the lens through which to examine Rwanda’s state-building history. In particular, it explores an overlooked perspective from Rwanda’s state-building trajectory by focusing on a particular class of actors – women – whose voices also contributed to inter-elite and elite-society state-building from pre-colonial times. The paper examines how and why conversible spaces have been created in post-genocide Rwanda that are locally conceived yet given form by Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) elites. It shows that these spaces are progressions of a long history of state-building conversations in Rwanda that pre-date colonialism. The paper asks how and why have conversible spaces for peace and state-building evolved over time? To what extent do their contemporary form have the potential for being genuinely transformative? What do these processes mean for future peace and state building in Rwanda? In addressing these questions, this paper foregrounds women’s agency and contributions to state-building in Rwanda over time. It shows that while there is evidence that women’s agency has evolved from covert to overt spaces, limitations to women’s influence of peace-building and state-building conversations still exist particularly for those whose visions of society diverge from that of the ruling party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
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本文不直接涉及非洲的国家形成、政治解决和国家建设辩论,但它将对话的概念作为考察卢旺达国家建设历史的镜头。特别地,它探讨了卢旺达国家建设轨迹中一个被忽视的观点,通过关注一个特殊的演员阶级——妇女——她们的声音也为前殖民时代的精英间和精英社会的国家建设做出了贡献。本文探讨了种族灭绝后的卢旺达如何以及为什么创造了可转换空间,这些空间是当地构思的,但由卢旺达爱国阵线(RPF)精英给予形式。它表明,这些空间是殖民主义之前卢旺达国家建设对话的漫长历史的进展。这篇论文提出,和平与国家建设的可转换空间是如何以及为什么随着时间的推移而演变的?它们的当代形式在多大程度上具有真正变革的潜力?这些进程对卢旺达未来的和平与国家建设意味着什么?在解决这些问题时,本文着重介绍了妇女的机构和长期以来对卢旺达国家建设的贡献。报告显示,虽然有证据表明妇女的作用已从隐蔽空间演变为公开空间,但妇女在建设和平和建设国家对话中的影响仍然受到限制,特别是对于那些对社会的看法与执政党卢旺达爱国阵线(爱国阵线)不同的人。
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Conflict Security & Development INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-
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