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Pushed to the Periphery: The Necessity of Women's Innovation in Activating Post-Conflicts Reconstruction

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This report provides an analysis of the extent to which post conflict reconstruction efforts have implemented national commitments for women’s participation in conflict management, post-conflict reconstruction, and rehabilitation processes, as provided for in United Nations Resolution 1325. The study focused on three countries - Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Each country has experienced decades of armed conflict with severe consequences including mass displacement, extreme forms of violence such as rape of women, forced conscription of children into militia groups, and the maiming of civilian populations. According to Isis-WICCE (2008), in Liberia, 62.5% of women reported a personal experience of sexual torture and 80% suffered at least one form of psychological torture. In Sierra Leonne, over a million people were internally displaced
while another 450,000 sought refuge in neighboring Liberia and Guinea, and 50,000 lost their lives.1 It is also documented that 100,000 people were mutilated and over a quarter of a million women raped.2 In Burundi, it is estimated that 300,000 people were killed.3 Between 2004 and
2006, the MSF Seruka Centre reported 4,039 cases.

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AWDF.0317

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Kampala, Uganda : Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE)., 2013

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English

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978 9970 29 016 1

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