HOW: Sources and Uses of Power

HOW: Sources and Uses of Power

Chapter 9 in Conflict Assessment & Peacebuilding Planning

What does this lens help us see?

Power & Means Analysis

Sources of Power include:

• Physical or military strength

• Identity

• Personal ability

• Economic resources

• Access to information

• Education

• Moral or spiritual strength

• Charisma

• Social capital

Identity and Power Imbalances

Racism

Classism

Sexism

Elitism

Religious oppression

Islamaphobia

Anti-semitism

Ageism

Heterosexism

Ableism

Xenophobia

Linguistic Discrimination

Women's Roles in Peacebuilding

Socialization for peace

Concern for all forms of violence

Linked to women's networks

Mobilized around ideology of womanhood

Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

Forms of Violence

Against Women

Key Questions

Identifies key stakeholders' sources of power or mean with which they drive & mitigate conflict.

Key Concepts

What does this lens help us see?

Physical

Psychological

Structural

How does this lens contribute to peacebuilding planning?

Peacebuilding is a process of empowerment and identifying interdependence of stakeholders upon each other.

Key Concepts

Power exists in relationships.

Power is always shifting.

People can create power by altering the ways they relate to other people.

Key Concepts

The term "sex" refers to biological differences between men and women.

The term "gender" refers to social differences between men and women that are created by the ways cultures' define what it means to be "masculine" or "feminine."

Being sensitive to gender means paying attention to the social differences between men & women

Social hierarchies exist in most places. And in most places they are a source of conflict.

Power imbalances cause everyday types of problems and conflicts between people for both those higher and lower on social hierarchies. These behaviors include:

• Blaming the victim

• Denial of differences

• Blaming the system

• Reverse prejudice

What does this lens help us see?

Gender roles shape the ways that men and women experience violence and the roles they place in supporting peace.

How does this lens contribute to peacebuilding planning?

Changing gender roles to allow both women and men to play the full range of peacebuilding roles is essential to peacebuilding

3 Lenses for Sources & Uses of Power

Key Questions

Identifies how people tend to rank identity groups, creating power imbalances.

What does this lens help us see?

How does this lens contribute to peacebuilding planning?

Peacebuilding processes can transform social hierarchies to support human security.

This powerpoint is a resource to be used with the book shown here, published by Lynn Rienner/Kumarian Press, 2013.

For more teaching/learning tools, please visit the book's website at:

www.conflict_assessment_and_peacebuilding_planning.org

• Power & means analysis

• Identity & power imbalances

• Gender, conflict, & Peacebuilding