Making of States from Gender Perspective

1. Presented by-
AnikaTasnim Nishat
ID-16121005
Dept. of Development Studies
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

3. INTRODUCTION

4. WHAT DOES IT MEANTO INTEGRATE GENDER
PERSPECTIVE INTO STATE-BUILDING?
 Donor agencies and local policy makers recognize the
fact that the conflicts, peacebuilding and state-building
are all ‘gendered’ processes through integrating a
gender perspective into the making of states.
 Basically they pay attention to the varied situations
where men and women are affected by and occupy
themselves.
 Integrating gender perspective into the matter helps to
identify how the processes and institutions are
‘gendered’ and in what ways they impact on people’s
lives.

5. NATIONALISM AS AN ELEMENT OF
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
 Nation refers to a stable community that shares a common
territory, language, economic life, ethnicity or psychological
make-up manifested in a common set of cultures and values.
 nations are often shaped in gendered terms; masculine and
feminine. Such as the colonized land is regarded as feminine
which is yet to be discovered and conquered by the colonizers.
 The way masculinity has termed women a ‘victim to be rescued’
at the very first phase by the colonizers and then by the
colonized elites.
 Each time, women’s roles and responsibilities in making and
unmaking of the states were being unrecognized.

6. MEN’S AND WOMEN’S PLACE IN
THE NATION
 The position of men and women were different since the very early centuries.
 Men and women practice their roles and responsibility given by the society
where they reside.
 Men were being characterized by some specific manliness aptitudes which
were perceived as a ‘must have features’ for men to be upholding on.
 On the other hand, a number of behavioral codes that society imposed on
women were to be followed accordingly also characterized women.
 Since men are considered to be the one who conquered the land, the empire
was seen as the ‘men’s world’.
 the territory which is not yet colonized by men were termed as ‘virgin’
supposing it to be a female.

7. RATIONALE FOR INTEGRATING GENDER
PERSPECTIVE INTO STATE-BUILDING
There are four key contentions for incorporating a sexual orientation
point of view into state-building:
 I) Gender equality and women's rights are vital
objectives in their own right, and state-building
processes offer chances to seek after them.
 2)Gender sensitive approaches can enhance the
achievement of internationally agreed peacebuilding
and state-building goals.
 3) A good understanding of gender dynamics in state-
building is essential to avoid negative impacts on
women and girls.

8. PERSISTING EXAMPLES-
Applying a gender dimension to conflict and political analysis in South Sudan-
 In South Sudan, bride wealth is part of their culture.
 Victor Lado Modi, Commissioner of Gwor County, one of the eight counties in Terekeka State,
once said that 45 is the minimum number of cattle acceptable in any
Mundari traditional marriage.
 the dowry economy and the associated prevalence of cattle raiding have a negative impact
on women and girls; they also drive conflict and violence within and between communities.
 it is driven by and reinforces unequal gender roles and relations that have a negative impact
on both men and women.
 It is not just men who reinforce these violent incidents: women too are reported to encourage
their male relatives to participate in cattle rustling.
 If the nations would not perceive these sort of differentiated gender relations, the conflicts
might not arise in the country.

9. CONT.
Local chiefs in Sierra Leone resisted when the government gave
women formal rights regarding marriage, divorce, inheritance and
domestic violence, and many chiefdom courts continued to use
customary law, which had previously regulating these issues.

10. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCORPORATING
GENDER PERSPECTIVE INTO STATE-BUILDING
I. Improve the funding and accountability mechanisms
available to support gender sensitive state-building
II. Contribute to building an evidence base on gender
sensitive state-building
III. Use international forums and networks to support
change at the national and local levels

11. CONCLUSION