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[kangeiko]

The Save the Children report on girl wives and child soldiers vis a vis the demobilisation process in the DRC is here and well worth a read. Warning: pdf file, Acrobat Reader required to view.

Heads-up from the african_studies community.

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[seelechen.livejournal.com]

This is very serendipitous - you posting the link now, that is, not the actual content. Next week my International Gender Politics class is focusing on the war, the military and militarism. I'll definitely have to introduce the report in my tutorial. Thanks!

[kangeiko]

It's no problem.

Btw, have you had a look over at the International Crisis Group (www.icg.org unless I'm much mistaken)? They do update emails on relevant stuff, segmented by region and/or country.

Also, IGP sounds fascinating. What does the course consist of, if you don't mind me asking?

[seelechen.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the ICG site - I'll have a look at it tonight.

The International Gender Politics subject is basically a survey of contemporary and traditional International Relations theory from the point of view of gender. IR is a very conservative discipline, so most of it is critique. So far we've looked at Human Rights theory, universal values vs cultural relativism, and a few other topics; we will be looking at the military and war, population politics, women and the international economy, international approaches to violence against women, and religious fundamentalism. It's a fascinating class, and it helps that we've got a great lecturer - Sheila Jeffrey's, a radical feminist who is very active in international action against human trafficking and etc. As I've majored in political science, with a focus on IR - as well as a few excursions into post-colonial theory and feminism - it's fascinating to examine what I've previously studied, and how much is ignored by the standard IR courses.