ABSTRACT
Societies undergoing conflict transformation often develop new institutions underpinned by new narratives about equality and parity of esteem between social groups. The institutions and semantics of conflict transformation are often ineffectual in terms of progressing gender and sexual equality as societies emerge from conflict. The case study of Northern Ireland highlights how narratives of peacebuilding and the institutional architecture of conflict transformation can become highly gendered environments that preserve gender and sexual inequalities in the implementation period of peace accords.
