AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE AND PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN  IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION: A STUDY ON DABAT WOREDA, NORTH  GONDER ZONE, AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL STATE

WORKIE, G/HIWOT

dc.contributor.author	WORKIE, G/HIWOT
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-26T03:23:58Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-26T03:23:58Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10097
dc.description.abstract	Abstract Women are half parts of the community. They have their own knowledge, experience, skill and capacity. These features of the women are so essential for conflict resolution. However, in practice except few areas of the world women have been prevented from conflict resolution process, including Ethiopia. This paper explores women's participation in conflict resolution process in the case of Dabat woreda, North Gondar Zone, Amhara national regional state. The study used social constructivism paradigm, qualitative research approach and case study design was employed. The data were obtained from primary source and collected through interview and focus group discussion. The collected data was qualitatively described; interpreting and analyzed systematically. Youth, men, women and institutions are important actors of conflict resolution. However, women have special qualities than men in resolving conflict by serving as a bridge to bring the divided groups through the sense of mother. This paper shows that conflict is so common in the study area because of farm land, family's property distribution during death, common pastoral land, problems related to blood revenge, health and economic problems. In fact, to solve these multi-dimensional problems the community needs both men’s and women’s involvement. But in practice women are not seen participating actively in the study area. Rather men are always appointed to resolve such conflict in the community. women have low participation and have been inhibited from conflict resolution process in the study area because of various preventive factors as obtained from collected data; culture of the community, economic dependency, the perception women developed through time and religious perception of the community are played a positive contribution to prevent women in conflict resolution process in the study area . The paper argues that women's involvement in conflict resolution is significance to use their unique qualities for the community and similarly it helps to improve women's involvement in all important activities. Key words: Conflict resolution, Women, Participation, Role, community	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	POLITICAL SCIENCE	en_US
dc.title	AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE AND PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION: A STUDY ON DABAT WOREDA, NORTH GONDER ZONE, AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL STATE	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US