ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role that marginalized communities can have in building a more inclusive post-conflict society. J. P. Lederach proposes an understanding of conflict transformation with relation to how exposure to conflict creates change across four dimensions such as personal, relational, structural, and cultural. Social movements, according to Della Porta and Diani, engage with opponents with conflicting ideas, “dense informal networks” link them, and they have a shared identity. Despite the argument made that the services provided did not address the victims’ needs and left them “bitter about their circumstances”. The Anti-Homosexuality Act aimed to increase the penalties for homosexuality that was already criminalized in law amid fears of the growing strength of the global lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer movements by claiming that it was “Un-African”. Many authors have discussed the importance of including different voices in the process of peacebuilding and post-conflict policy development, including, most notably, women and youth.
