Chronicles of African Engagement: Beyond a Dualist Reading of Foreign Intervention

Despite various peace agreements, reparations frequently overlook gendered impacts, failing the women and girls who constitute most survivors. This paper explores how African feminist policy can reshape these frameworks to be inclusive and transformative. By analyzing post-conflict settings in Liberia, the DRC, and Rwanda, it evaluates the feasibility of gender-sensitive initiatives—such as survivor-centered funds, integrated psychosocial care, and women’s leadership in program design. Ultimately, the paper argues that prioritizing feminist justice transforms reparations from symbolic gestures into material, psychological, and socioeconomic tools that restore survivor agency and foster gender-equitable peacebuilding across Africa.

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About the AfSol Journal

The African Solutions Journal (AfSol Journal) is one of the research products of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) which serves as a platform for critical debate and solutions on African peace and security challenges. It aims at meeting peace and security as an intellectual challenge and avails theoretical and practical knowledge to academia and policy makers.

AfSol Journal would like to draw this knowledge from newly-emerging practices and from past experiences to be found hidden in oral verses and practices of Africans, written in academic publications, daily periodicals, and policy documents. It is embedded in what Africa has achieved in the past and in what it could have done better; it is entrenched in its history, its traditions, values and its people. Our vision is to bring this knowledge together, publish papers with high academic standards, yet presentable to policy makers and to everyone devoted for a peaceful and prosperous Africa.

African perspectives and approaches to conflict, peace and security are found scattered in various journals and books, making it very difficult to build a consistent body of knowledge that keeps building on previous concepts on the subject. The AfSol Journal serves as a platform to examine African peace, security, and governance from both academic and practical point of views. It will give African scholars an opportunity to discuss the past and present, and shape their future by actively debating and constructing a common understanding of African-centred solutions for peace and security.