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Ismailbekova, Aksana; Megoran, Nick

Peace in the Family is the Basis of Peace in the Country

How Women Contribute to Local Peace in Southern Kyrgyzstan

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 14, 4

S. 483-500

DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2020.1780017
Abstract

There has been a significant amount of research on peacebuilding in Central Asia in general and in Kyrgyzstan in particular. This has helped us both understand socio-political processes in the republic itself, and the shortcomings of the liberal peacebuilding framework in general. However, this work has, with rare exceptions, focused largely on male peacebuilding at either the state or international scale. Correcting that trend, this article illuminates the role of women peacebuilders in the post-conflict city of Osh. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 2016, it argues that women have a hitherto overlooked but nonetheless important ‘invisible’ role in peacebuilding.