Gender discourses and practices play a crucial role in legitimizing, conceptualizing, and implementing contemporary peacebuilding and its various practices and strategies. Our colleague Dr. Maéva Clément is currently researching reconciliation and peacebuilding from a gender perspective by interviewing experts, practitioners, and activists in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The research stay is part of her Researcher Mobility grant from the International Network of Universities (INU) to work with colleagues at Stellenbosch University on gender, reconciliation, and peace.
She is a guest of Prof. Louise du Toit and will participate in the research activities of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ Center), and the Reconciliation and Justice Unit of the Beyers Naudé Centre. In this interdisciplinary environment, Maéva Clément will present her project on the gendered governance of reconciliation and will undertake joint research and teaching activities with colleagues at Stellenbosch University. In this context, she will also present the research and teaching priorities at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück.
More about Dr. Maéva Clément's work can be found on the website of the Department of International Relations & Peace and Conflict Studies.
