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DTSTART:20081021T170500Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Gender\, power and peacemaking in Africa\, Chaos & Complex Sys
 tems Seminar\, Aili Mari Tripp\, UW Departments of Political Science a
 nd Women's Studies
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will look at why almost all post-conflict
  countries in Africa have double the rates of legislative representati
 on of women compared with countries that have not undergone conflict. 
 Moreover\, these countries tend to have been more open to passing legi
 slation and making constitutional changes relating to women's rights. 
 In my talk\, I explain why Rwanda has the highest rates of legislative
  representation of women in the world (49% of all seats are held by wo
 men) and why Liberia has the first elected woman president in Africa. 
 The talk examines how and why the end of major civil conflicts\, espec
 ially since the 1990s from South Africa to Namibia\, Mozambique\, Rwan
 da\, Burundi\, Liberia and Sierra Leone\, opened up new opportunities 
 for women activists. I discuss the broader international context of th
 ese changes\, changing gender relations during civil war\, and the rol
 e of women1s movements. The talk is based on both comparative research
  across Africa as well as fieldwork in Uganda\, Liberia and Angola.<br
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1271
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