Feminist Foreign Politics

Through six testimonies of women abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), ‘No Longer Silent’ highlights their experience in returning to their communities and rebuilding their lives. Access to housing and land, as well as food security and the desire for their children to receive an education, are amongst their primary challenges and concerns. The documentary exposes the shortcomings of the current Peace, Recovery and Development Plan of the Ugandan Government which has to date not included women as beneficiaries in the reconstruction programmes.

The Nobel Women's Initiative calls to join the campaign Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict. The campaign was launched in the Week of Action from May 6 to May 13, 2012.

The strides that international penal law has undergone over the past twenty years are remarkable. However, in terms of investigating and prosecuting sexual violence as international crimes, significant shortcomings are still apparent.

The trying of cases involving war-related sexualised violence is the exception in international criminal trials as well as at the national level.

The system of racial domination known as ‘apartheid’ had engendered a guerilla war since the 1960s and the country had become a militarised fortress . 

As Germany’s status as an international player has risen, the image of the citizen in uniform, including in its public presentation, has given way to that of the combatant, and been extended to include the cyber warrior, as can be seen in the USA’s current use of drones as part of its warfare tactics.

Ways must be identified through which men can recognise what benefits they reap if they stop using violence. For they will only support women's interests if they are convinced that there is something in it for them. The question is therefore in what ways other than through violence + control can they experience respect! The slogan must therefore be that only “a weak man finds it necessary to use violence to get what he wants“.

What does “militarised masculinity” mean? How does it affect armed conflicts and post-conflict situations? How can this problem be addressed? These were the core issues of an expert talk held in Berlin in 2011.

Apart from speakers from South Africa and discussion participants from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a number of German non-governmental organisations, particularly from the field of peace and conflict studies, also took part.

The "SALMA campaign" calls for increased gender equality and improved social and legal position of women in the Arab world, focusing on Egypt, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The name SALMA was chosen by the partner organizations reflecting the network vision; Salma stands for “strong and healthy woman, living in a peaceful society, free from violence and discrimination.”. Here you find it's final report on activities implemented during January 2007-December 2009.