Violence against Women and Post-Conflict Policing in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire

About this event
The UN has promoted the establishment of specialized criminal justice mechanisms, such as specialized police and gendarmerie units, to respond to post-conflict gender-based violence. However, countries have differed in how they have established these units. Drawing on over 300 interviews in Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire, this presentation analyses how factors such as the strength of the women’s movement affects the establishment of these specialized units and the performance of personnel.

About the speaker
Peace Medie is Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research addresses gender, politics, and conflict in Africa. Her book, Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa, was published in March 2020 by Oxford University Press. Her works have been published in African Affairs, International Studies Review, Politics & Gender, and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Her work has won several awards, including the 2019 Best Article Award of the European Journal of Politics and Gender. She is a co-editor of African Affairs, the top-ranked African studies journal, and of the Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations book series. She is a Research Fellow at LECIAD, University of Ghana, and a 2015 - 2017 Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. Medie is also a successful fiction writer.

* This event is organized in collaboration with the Network on Civil Wars, UdeM.