Ip v6: Congo and Feminismus theory

Historic events

1885-1960 Colonialism

1960-65 first republic

1965-1997 second republic

1994 Genocide in Rwanda

1996-1997 first Congo war

1998-2003 second Congo war = Great African war

2006-2009 third Congo war

2010-2015 riots in eastern Congo

since 2015 no stability and election dramas

what functions is important for working state

Security Function: Internal security: Monopoly on force, external sovereignty

Welfare Function: Secured revenues: Monopoly on taxes and currency, expenditures on public goods: Infrastructure, education

Rule-of-law Function: Legal space with uniform validity and general applicability, reliability of the bureaucracy

What are the steps of a failed state?

consolidating states

- still have slight deficits in one or more areas but can function as a hole

weak states

- more profound dysfunction as corruption and clientelism in economic and constitutional spheres

- still has a monopoly on use of force, can be provide security

ailing states

- security of citizens can no longer be guaranteed, military private armys of warlords compete with the state

- state has still a bit of controll over the two other areas

collapsed state

- no control over nothing

What is the feminism Theory?

• goes across all theory schools

• liberal feminism, radical feminism, post-structured feminism

What is the liberal Feminist Theory?

- leans on idealistic liberalism

- sees womans disadvantage in society and their poor chances of achieving higher social positions

- laws must change that woman and man are equally

- Mary Caprioli says: the closer the social gender gap the more peaceful are the politics

- war through state collape means failing institutions, making woman weaker and prey for man

- fazit: more harder sancitons and training for soldiers, more female soldiers

what is the radical feminist theory

adical feminism

- more based on revolutionary partly marxist approaches

- **the hegemony of the patriarchy

- privileged position of men

- the liberalism isnt enough, the complete system must be changed

- because the woman only does private sphere that has to change

- so even in peacetime the oppression and rape of woman is largely normal

- in war the relationship between man and woman is radicalised

- rape is in every society a problem

- the problem is that woman are not a part of the politcal decision makin process

- teh goal is two make both genders equal from the start

- woman are not meant to be soldiers and die for a man war

- it needs more woman in the politics

what is the feminist social constructivist theory

- sees apart of the normal gender roles

- critices feminims for monopolisng some traids as feminine and tends to view these as superior to men

- analyses of gender roles are build threw language and how they constitute each other

- traids like, strong, independent are masculine and weak, emotionally is woman

- the names of the nukes "Fat Man" and "little Boy" sexism is deep in our society and not direct led by man

- change only possible in an evolutionary way not revolutionary

- rape is a act of "masculanity"

How will it be going on?

- for all three SA is hard to stop

- liberals would change the institutions, state colapse as a driver of SA, more soldier training

- radicals patriarchy is even in peaceful times hard to reform, start with education

- social constructives, change in language