In the final chapter of his book, Identity and Violence: the Illusion of Destiny, Amartya Sen writes of his encounter as an eleven-year boy with a dying man, at his home’s gates. The man’s name, he tells us, was Kader Mia and his murder was one of thousands and thousands in the Hindu-Muslim riots of the 1940’s in Bengal. The chapter concludes the book’s engagement with the way in which identities are implicated in violence, and the final sentence strikes home like an arrow: “We have to make sure, above all, that our mind is not halved by a horizon” (Sen, 2006: 186).
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Editorial
Rethinking Gender and Violence
– by Jane Bennett
Feature Articles
Sexual Violence in Conflict: a Problematic International Discourse
– by Eve Ayiera
"Circles and circles": Notes on African feminist debates around gender and violence in the c21
– by Jane Bennett
Domestic Violence in the African North
– by Fatima Sadiqi
Women's Activism and Transformation: Arising from the Cusp
– by Anu Pillay
Standpoint
"Murderous women"? Rethinking gender and theories of violence
– by Adelene Africa
In Conversation
In Conversation Godwin Murunga
Godwin Murunga, from the University of Kenyatta, talks with Jane Bennett about the politics of masculinities studies and African feminisms
In Conversation Yaliwe Clarke
Pauline Dempers, from Breaking the Walls of Silence, Namibia, talks with Yaliwe Clarke about some of her ideas on peace-building which are rooted in experiences as a ex-combatant in the Namibian liberation struggle
Profiles
One of the very few places in the country without abuse: The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children (Cape Town, South Africa)
– by Irma Maharaj
There is Hope…We are Not Giving Up : Freedom and Roam Uganda
– by Kasha Jacqueline