<i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement
Focusing on the understudied area of women, religion, and peacebuilding, this essay offers the case study of Liberian mothers’ actions in the interreligious peace movement to address multiple forms of violence in the midst and aftermath of Liberian civil wars. This essay examines three forms of gend...
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| description | Focusing on the understudied area of women, religion, and peacebuilding, this essay offers the case study of Liberian mothers’ actions in the interreligious peace movement to address multiple forms of violence in the midst and aftermath of Liberian civil wars. This essay examines three forms of gender violence and their impact on the lives of Liberian women: (1) sexual violence, (2) forced mobilization of child soldiers, and (3) structural poverty. Afterwards, the essay explores the journey of Liberian mothers to peace and justice and analyzes the role of religion(s) in organizing and sustaining the mothers’ interreligious peace movement. Specifically, this essay highlights the concept of motherhood rooted in Pan-African religious traditions as a key moral resource to empower the mothers as peacebuilders and to foster restorative justice in their war-torn nation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-83e609d5034642a8b991becbadf97ebf2023-11-20T05:22:51ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442020-06-0111732310.3390/rel11070323<i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace MovementWonchul Shin0Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA 30030, USAFocusing on the understudied area of women, religion, and peacebuilding, this essay offers the case study of Liberian mothers’ actions in the interreligious peace movement to address multiple forms of violence in the midst and aftermath of Liberian civil wars. This essay examines three forms of gender violence and their impact on the lives of Liberian women: (1) sexual violence, (2) forced mobilization of child soldiers, and (3) structural poverty. Afterwards, the essay explores the journey of Liberian mothers to peace and justice and analyzes the role of religion(s) in organizing and sustaining the mothers’ interreligious peace movement. Specifically, this essay highlights the concept of motherhood rooted in Pan-African religious traditions as a key moral resource to empower the mothers as peacebuilders and to foster restorative justice in their war-torn nation.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/7/323Liberian womengender violenceinterreligious peacebuildingmotherhoodrestorative justice |
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| title | <i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement |
| title_full | <i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement |
| title_fullStr | <i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement |
| title_full_unstemmed | <i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement |
| title_short | <i>Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice</i>: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace Movement |
| title_sort | i mama keep walking for peace and justice i gender violence and liberian mothers interreligious peace movement |
| topic | Liberian women gender violence interreligious peacebuilding motherhood restorative justice |
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