Gender & Peacebuilding: Editorial

Editorial Spotlight on gender

a , b c * Peter Collins , John C. Stevenson , Lori Mosca National Heart and Lung Institute and Royal Brompton Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital (Mint Wing), Praed Street, London W2 1NY, UK New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Unive...

Editorial: Language, Cognition, and Gender

Gender inequality remains a contentious issue in many societies, despite legislative, and other less formal attempts to tackle it. It is perpetuated, in part, by gender stereotyping. Previous research indicates that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Genderrelated information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical categor...

Time for gender mainstreaming in editorial policies

The HIV epidemic has been continuously growing among women, and in some parts of the world, HIV-infected women outnumber men. Women's greater vulnerability to HIV, both biologically and socially, influences their health risk and health outcome. This disparity between sexes has been established for other diseases, for example, autoimmune diseases, malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. Differ...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Gender, and Peacebuilding in Africa: A Case of Missed Connections

This paper posits that marginalizing women is retrogressive in the peacebuilding process, and that information and communication technology (ICT) can be used to mitigate this problem in Africa. In most of the African continent, women constitute the majority of the population, yet they remain marginalized in knowledge, networks, and economic and political matters. As a result, a lot of energy is...

Mostar and MItrovica : constested grounds for peacebuilding