A Gendered Analysis of Refugee Peacebuilding: Transnational Networks for Peace.

Abstract

This article analyses the activities of three refugee women's organisations from Tibet, the Sudan, and Burma/Myanmar, concluding that it is strategically important to support women's transnational networks and facilitate contact between diaspora, refugee, and local women's organisations interested in conflict transformation. A gendered analysis of refugee peacebuilding capacity reveals gaps in peacebuilding capacity approaches that become evident when female diasporas are the focus of the research. The women's refugee organisations show the capacity for transnational bridge building, that is, the capacity to build and sustain networks across geographical, social and political boundaries with the aim of bringing about nonviolent social change.