Doctoral Disseration Research: Stabilizing Gender in a Post-War Context: Possibilities for Peace in Northern Uganda

Lorraine DowlerNicole J . laliberte宾夕法尼亚州立大学公园战后背景下的性别稳定：乌干达北部和平的可能性本研究调查了战后稳定可能延续甚至创造新形式的性别暴力和不平等的方式，即使明确关注性别问题。稳定的努力是使特定社会关系正常化的努力，对这些进程的分析可以用来评估战后争夺权力的人的优先事项。特别是，对稳定性别关系的尝试的分析可以用来研究性别身份是如何被用来将一些人置于权力地位之上的。利用乌干达北部重新安置的过渡时刻，本研究考察了战后稳定过程中的权力谈判，在这些谈判中使用性别的方式，以及这些性别化的稳定过程对人们生活的影响。本研究询问乌干达的国家、地方组织和国际机构如何构建性别，以肯定他们对稳定的愿景。这些愿景如何因地而异，它们的话语和物质表现如何影响人们的生活？最后，具体社会关系的稳定对实现和平与平等的地方战略有什么作用？本研究将把女权主义理论和批判发展理论应用于战后景观的特殊性，以了解与稳定和重建有关的权力、机构和暴力的转变。这项研究将与乌干达全国妇女组织协会（全国妇女组织协会）合作进行。在与Gulu， Pader和Kitgum地区的NAWOU成员组织合作时，通过使用定性方法，该研究将能够收集对研究人员缺乏信任的高度流动人口的数据。在妇女和妇女问题研究所的指导下，这项研究的结果将直接散发给当地的女权主义组织，以促进它们目前为该区域的和平与平等所作的努力，并协助正在乌干达北部战后环境中努力制订对性别问题敏感的方案的国家和国际行动者。该项目通过研究冲突时期男女经历的研究与战后社会发展过程中男女经历的研究之间的理论脱节，为多个学科的女权主义学术做出了贡献。该项目将自己置于这两个非常重要的理论框架的交汇处，其目的不仅是更好地理解性别关系，而且是更好地理解这些性别关系如何成为可持续和平的组成部分。此外，通过运用女权主义地理学理论，批判性地探讨地点和规模的概念，本研究将把全球、国家和地方话语与个人的实地物质经验联系起来，探索和平的可能性。本项目由美国国家科学基金会地理与空间科学项目和国际科学与工程办公室非洲、近东和南亚项目（ANESA）联合资助。

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONGEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL SCIENCES PROGRAMABSTRACT1003541 Lorraine DowlerNicole J LalibertePennsylvania State Univ University ParkStabilizing Gender in a Post-War Context: Possibilities for peace in northern UgandaThis study investigates the ways in which post-war stabilization may perpetuate or even create new forms of gendered violence and inequality, even when explicitly attentive to issues of gender. Attempts to stabilize are attempts to normalize particular social relations and an analysis of these processes can be used to assess the priorities of those vying for power in the post-war context. In particular, an analysis of attempts to stabilize gender relations can be used to examine how gender identities are used to place some people in positions of power over others. Taking advantage of the transitional moment of resettlement in northern Uganda, this study examines the negotiation of power in processes of stabilization in the post-war landscape, the way gender is used within these negotiations, and the effect of these gendered processes of stabilization on people's lives. This study asks how gender is constructed by the state, local organizations, and international agencies in Uganda to affirm their visions of stability. How do these visions vary by place, and how do their discursive and material manifestations affect people's lives? Finally, what role does the stabilization of specific social relations have on local strategies for realizing peace and equality? This research will apply feminist theory and critical development theory to the particularities of post-war landscapes in order to understand the shifts in authority, agency and violence that are associated with stabilization and reconstruction. This research will be conducted in collaboration with the National Association of Women's Organizations in Uganda (NAWOU). By using a qualitative methodology while working with NAWOU member organizations in Gulu, Pader and Kitgum districts, the study will be able to collect data on a highly transient population that has little trust in researchers. With the guidance of NAWOU, the findings of this study will be disseminated directly to local feminist organizations to contribute to their ongoing efforts for peace and equality in the region as well as national and international actors that are trying to create gender sensitive programming in the post-war landscape of northern Uganda.This project contributes to feminist scholarship in multiple disciplines by investigating the theoretical disconnect between the investigation of the experiences of both men and women during a period of conflict and the experiences of those very same men and women in a post-war society as it undergoes the process of development. This project nests itself in the intersection of these two very important theoretical frameworks with the aim of not simply offering a better understanding of gender relations but a better understanding of how those gender relations are integral to sustainable peace. Furthermore, by using feminist geographic theory that critically engages with the concepts of place and scale, this research will connect global, national and local discourses with the on-the-ground material experiences of individuals to explore possibilities for peace. This project is jointly supported by the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program and the NSF Africa, Near East, and South Asia Program (ANESA) of the Office of International Science and Engineering.