Table of Contents

Contents: Practice and Constructs - Rainforest Belief Systems and the Making of Gender Identities - Gender Inequality and the Making of a Civil War - Violent Masculinity and the Making of the Warring Factions - Gender Hierarchies, Roles and Violence in the Warring Factions - Beyond the Recognition of SGBV in the Peace Versus the Justice Debate: How Women Won the Civil War - The Aftermath: Accountability for Gender-Based Political and Cultural Violence - At War's End! Understanding the Postcolonial Question on Queer Sexuality - Socio-Political Change or Resistance? Religion, Politics and the Question of Homosexuality - Women's Agency and the Institutionalisation of Interventions Against Gender Violence and Discrimination Against Women - Acknowledging the Past and Present, and Forging the Way Forward

About the Author

John Idriss Lahai earned his PhD from the University of New England, Australia; and postgraduate degrees from the United Nations University for Peace Studies (UPEACE) and the University of Sierra Leone. Prior to joining Flinders University, Australia as a Research Fellow in the School of History and International Relations, he was an independent consultant with extensive experience working for think tanks and governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Much of his academic and applied work has investigated the lived experiences of vulnerable peoples and communities within the margins of conflict, peacebuilding and state transformation, seeking to integrate perspectives from gender and women's studies, public policy, public health governance, cultural anthropology, critical political economy, security studies, and human rights. He is co-editor of African Frontiers: Insurgency, Governance and Peacebuilding in Postcolonial States (2015) and author of The Ebola Pandemic in Sierra Leone: Representations, Actors, Interventions, and the Path to Recovery (2016), and his other publications have appeared in journals and edited books.