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22 July 2019

Making peace sustainable? From Successful Policies to Concerns for Peace in Maluku, Indonesia

Sustainable peace requires in-depth inclusive peace and reconciliation processes in the communities

Rigual, Christelle and Arifah Rahmawati. 2019. Making Peace Sustainable? From Successful Policies to Concerns for Peace in Maluku, Indonesia. The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflict, Armed Violence, and Peacebuilding Research Brief 1|2019.

Based on research conducted on the island of Ambon in Maluku, Indonesia, this brief shows how top-down peacebuilding policies need to be complemented with gender-inclusive community-driven initiatives to ensure the sustainability of peace.

This research was conducted within the Gender Centre's project on The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflicts, Armed Violence and Peacebuilding.

 

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