Seminar «L'aide internationale en "crise"?», session 3: Marie Saiget, La cause des femmes après la guerre. Organisations internationales et actions collectives des femmes au Burundi, (Karthala/Sciences Po Aix, forthcoming).
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 | 14h-17h | Espace Philippe Séguin Research Library
Book presentation :
→ Marie Saiget, The cause of women after the war. International organisations and collective action by women in Burundi, Questions Transnationales, Karthala/Sciences Po Aix (forthcoming).
Exploring several cases of collective action in Burundi, such as the fight against violence against women, for political representation and women's inheritance of land, the book makes a strong case. The interventions of international organisations rarely meet pre-defined objectives, such as the empowerment of women or pacification. But they do generate tension and debate about the issues at stake in women's collective action. In this way, they open up a space for conflict, where political domination can be legitimised, negotiated or challenged. This politicisation puts international organisations at an impasse, as it falls outside the intervention framework that these players can effectively provide. Paradoxically, this impasse feeds rather than alters the politicisation underway.
Through this research, the book makes an essential contribution to the analysis of post-war contexts, by describing the profound ambivalence of the processes of social and political change. Contrary to the discourse of international organisations, «post-conflict» is not always a window of opportunity for the political handling of gender issues. On the contrary, it can be interpreted by local political elites to justify sidelining these issues, pointing the finger at the conflicts that gender equality could give rise to.
💻 Hybrid format, single link for all sessions : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/99451335889?pwd=RW5laHZibGtDcklSMiszVW5HZ0ttZz09
The coordinating team : Teoman Gönen (Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS), Lucas Faure (ULB-Germe, Sciences Po Aix-MESOPOLHIS), Nathalie Ferrière (Sciences Po Aix, AMSE), Simon Mangon (Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS), Dilek Yankaya (Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS).
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