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Gender, Conflict and Peace

Gender and Conflicts: Patterns and Causes of

Masculinization of Land Conflicts in indonesia

Afrizal, Siska Adhariani, Ovy Riana Irawan

Universitas Andalas

The conflict associated with land use change led by oil palm expansion has been published

intensively, but analysis of the conflict from a gender perspective is still lacking, so it does not

have a balanced view of the involvement of women and men. By paying attention to gender

issues, this paper is an attempt to fixes this knowledge gap. Based on the use of gender-

sensitive conflict analysis, the results of the analysis of 150 conflicts that occurred between
2010-2019 over land conversion for oil palm plantations in four provinces (Central Kalimantan,

West Kalimantan, Riau, and West Sumatra) will be presented and explained. This paper would

suggest that while households and community members risk losing access to land within

village areas, women are much less involved than men in struggling for land defense and

conflict resolution processes. Consequently, when land struggles are successful, men
benefited. Our explanation is the dominance of male involvement in land use change conflicts

because of maleoriented of customary land tenure

Keywords: conflict, gender, land-use change, oil palm expansion, Indonesia.

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