6.2 – Intersectionality

As far as I’ve understood.. the concept of intersectionality can be helpful in peacebuilding process only when the leading one’s of such movements come to an agreement on taking steps to bring about awareness and positive changes to the surroundings. If they by their own selves would encourage differences about the same situation it would mislead the public about what should be followed by them means which particular organization..
Intersectionality can bring about advantages like a remarkable change change in the regard of not letting girls to study, to go outside for jobs, injustice at domestic level between boys and girls i mean an holistic approach can be figured out through understanding this term… as there’s no white or black ,poor or wealthy, no gender discrimination…. intersectionality can provide with a free to free, frank platform and then the volunteers could possibly be able to work with persuading people to move on in their lives by leaving all the bad thoughts behind.

1. An intersectional approach allows us to recognise the value women play at the informal level and more importantly bring these mechanisms into the broader peace and negotiations process. It will allow us to critically analyse barriers, challenges and social norms that prevent the wonderful and meaningful participation of women.
2. Intersectional feminism offers a lens thought which can better and genders non-conforming youth. It must be declared that girls are not able to study, the girls are treated as a homemade doll. The girls are treated as a domestic instrument who’s are not as strong and stable as boys. Even they(girls) are not allowed to do a respectable job in the outfield. For staling, a peaceful society never underestimates the power of girls or women and always respect them because they deserve the same honour as boys.

Countries and communities around the world face multiple and aggravating threats. While sets of problems vary from place to place, they share the effect of increasing pre-existing needs, such as housing, food, education, care, employment and protection. However, crisis responses often fail to protect the most vulnerable. “If you are invisible in everyday life, your needs will not be thought of. Equal opportunities and treatment are a fundamental principle of human rights with wide application in various fields. And yet it is less and less respected.
A society without conflicts must be a perfect, utopian society. But in everyday life, conflicts are pervasive, of course of different magnitudes and types, some of them also having a regulatory role and bringing benefits to the parties involved.

1- Intersectionality means that how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege in terms of gender, sex, race, class, religion, disability, physical appearance, and height. Therefore those people should work and decide together in a workplace or project, because people might understand what diffirentiates makes them vulnerable and how the diffirentiates are unimportant.Making peace-building practice intersectional helps to ensure that vulnerable people are properly addressed and helped. Also, policy makers should increase the awareness of the society by explaning intersectionality.

2- Doubtless, most of the conflicts occured due to discrimination, diffirentiations etc. Therefore instersectionality is one of the aspects of conflicts. Intersectionality compels us to tackle complexity and to address categories.

How does the concept of intersectionality apply in the peacebuilding process?
Intersectionality describes the complexity of intertwined connections between identity, socio-economic status, and systems of power that make up how we fit into the world around us. The idea reveals that we do not fit into a single neat box, but rather maintain identities composed by the context that exists within and around us. Through the framework outlined by intersectionality, we know that we are not just black or white, male or female, rich or poor, but instead belong to many different communities at once.

Are there advantages in integrating intersectionality in conflict analysis? If yes, what are these?
Intersectional thinking has opened the way to more inclusive and coalitional social movements and agendas. We are now witnessing the advent of (currently transnational) movements like the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, and the Global Justice Movement arising out of the World Social Forum, all of which are led or heavily influenced by women and prominently feature queer women and women of color. Such movements see struggles against racism, classism, neocolonialism, xenophobic nationalism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, ageism, Islamophobia, and ecological destruction as indivisible

How does the concept of intersectionality apply in the peacebuilding process?

Intersectionality made clear that many forms of discrimination are together seen as more discriminant to a person. Being a woman is one element of intersectionality together with others like religion, race, class, ethnicity and many more. Intersectionality must be involved in the peacebuilding process, because many paople who are living in countries where peace is not present face more restrictions because of their sex, their religion and other factors, which I mentioned before.

Are there advantages in integrating intersectionality in conflict analysis? If yes, what are these?
Yes, they are, because including all these elements we come close to non-discrimination in the context of peacebuilding.

The problem of feminist power became a study case and even now we can see that the number of women in positions of leaders is smaller than that of men! So of course is crucial to action like intersectional for eliminating all prejudice between all of us

The intersectional approach during the building peace helps a lot because people coming from different backgrounds, has a different religion or different skin colors treat equally. Non-discrimination,non-hierarchy, and feminism is an important part of this approach so yes these are the advantages.

1)it refers to how social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege in terms of gender, sex, race, class, religion, disability, physical appearance, and height. Therefore those people should work and decide together in a workplace or project, because people might understand what diffirentiates makes them vulnerable and how the diffirentiates are unimportant.Making peace-building practice intersectional helps to ensure that vulnerable people are properly addressed and helped.
2)has opened the way to more inclusive and coalitional social movements and agendas.