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Women's Movements and Constitution Making after Civil Unrest and Conflict in Africa: The Cases of Kenya and Somalia

Tripp, Aili Mari·2016·Politics & Gender
DOI 10.1017/s1743923x16000015
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As numerous conflicts have come to an end in Africa over the past two decades, women's movements have sought to advance a women's rights agenda through peace accords; through constitutional, legislative, and electoral reforms; as well as through the introduction of gender quotas. This article focuses the impact women's movements have had in shaping constitutions after periods of turmoil, particularly in areas of equality, customary law, antidiscrimination, violence against women, quotas, and citizenship rights. It demonstrates how countries that have come out of major civil conflict and violent upheaval in Africa after the mid-1990s—but especially after 2000—have made more constitutional changes with respect to women's rights than other African countries. The second part of the article provides two examples of how women's movements influenced constitutional changes pertaining to gender equality as well as the difficulties they encountered, particularly with respect to the international community.

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Authors
Tripp, A. M.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Corresponding author
Tripp, Aili Mari
ORCID
Tripp, Aili Mari
Venue
Politics & Gender
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2016-03
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
78-106
ISSN
  • 1743-923X (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-9248
DOI
10.1017/s1743923x16000015
OpenAlex
W2307471620
Cited by
60
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
FWCI
15.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 22 d)
Locations
Politics & Gender (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Politics and Representation
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
Keywords
women's movement, constitutional drafting, post-conflict reconstruction, women's rights, gender equality, gender quotas, customary law, violence against women, citizenship rights, anti-discrimination, Kenya, Somalia, peace agreements, international community

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Tripp, A. M. (2016). Women's Movements and Constitution Making after Civil Unrest and Conflict in Africa: The Cases of Kenya and Somalia. Politics & Gender. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x16000015