GBV &  Norm Implementation

This is a study of states’ responses to gender-based violence. Medie’s book, “Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa” examines the factors that shape states’ implementation of international gender-based violence norms in Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire. It draws on over 300 interviews with a range of individuals, including law enforcement officers and survivors of violence, to probe the factors that affect norm implementation at the street-level, with a focus on the roles of international organizations and women’s movements.

Medie’s second book, which is in progress, studies the evolution of women’s traditional leadership in Botswana, Ghana, Liberia, and South Africa. It draws on 700 interviews and an original survey to theorise women traditional leaders’ influence on the implementation of progressive women’s rights norms.

  Publications

Book    
Peace A. Medie. 2020. Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa. Oxford University Press.       

Journal Articles
Nana Akua Anyidoho, Gordon Crawford, and Peace A. Medie. 2021. ‘The Role of Women's Movements in the Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Laws’, Politics & Gender 17(3): 427-453.

Peace A. Medie and Shannon Drysdale Walsh, 2021. ‘International Organizations, NGOs, and Police Implementation of Domestic Violence Policies in Liberia and Nicaragua’, Politics & Gender 17(1): 136-166. 
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Peace A. Medie. 2017. 'Rape Reporting in Post-Conflict Cote d'Ivoire: Accessing Justice and Ending Impunity,' African Affairs 116(464): 414-434. 

Peace A. Medie. 2015. 'Women and Postconflict Security: A Study of Police Response to Domestic Violence in Liberia,' Politics & Gender 11(3): 478-498.

Peace A. Medie. 2013. 'Fighting Gender-Based Violence: The Women's Movement and the Enforcement of Rape Law in Liberia,' African Affairs 112(448): 377-397.  

Book Chapters
Peace A. Medie. 2020. ‘Law Enforcement and Women’s Preference for Reconciliation in Domestic Violence Cases in Liberia,’ in Antje Daniel, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, Melanie Richter-Montpetit and Tanja Scheiterbauer (eds), War, Violence, and Refuge: Feminist Perspectives on Security. Barbara Budrich Publishers. 
 
Peace A. Medie. 2020. 'The Response to Gender Based Violence in Africa,' in Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave.

Peace A. Medie. 2019. ‘Women and Violence in Africa.' Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. 

Peace A. Medie. 2018. ‘The Police: Laws, Prosecutions, and Women’s Rights in Liberia.' in Nic Cheeseman (ed.), Politics in Africa: The Importance of Institutions. Cambridge University Press.

Opinion Piece
Peace A. Medie, Adriana Biney, Amanda Coffie, and Cori Wielanga, 'Women Traditional Leaders Could Help Make Sure the Pandemic Message is Heard,' The Conversation, 24 August 2020.