Collective monograph "Gender-based violence in Africa: origins, motives, types"

"Gender-Based Violence in Africa: Origins, Motives, Types". Collected monograph.

Editors: D.Sc. (Hist.) N.L. Krylova, Ph.D. (Hist.) N.A. Ksenofontova

– M.: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. – 384 p.
ISBN 978-5-91298-307-8

The monograph is prepared by a team of Africanists, orientalists, historians, ethnologists, lawyers and cultural experts, teachers and public figures. Its relevance is due to the global historical importance of the targets according to Sustainable Development Goal 5 until 2030 in terms of perception, preventing and controlling violence against women. The monograph examines the most common types of gender violence: physical and sexual, economic and political, moral and psychological, emotional, ethical and intellectual.

Despite the states’ adoption of laws aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, in Africa these morbid phenomena are observed at levels above the world average. The existence of a huge gap between theory and practice can be explained by the strong influence of existing traditions, customary legal norms, the hierarchy of ethnic communities, historical stereotypes of mass consciousness, prevailing public opinion and many other features of a traditionalist society.

The monograph analyzes the dramatic aspects of gender violence during armed conflicts on the African continent, the activation of terrorist organizations, in systems of various opposition states and relations – social, individual, historical-cultural, ethnoracial, religious, political, psychological, etc., including such a global phenomenon, as gender-based violence within the family. In the course of gradual improvement of the socio-economic basis of the state, both gender and intra-family relationships will inevitably change over time. A prominent role in this process belongs to the most significant international organizations, national governments, NGOs and activist leaders who fight against gender-based violence and its consequences.