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ABSTRACT BOOK

Gender, Conflict and Peace

Human Security of Rural Women for Community

Peacebuilding

Mely Noviryani

Universitas Brawijaya

This research is aimed to identify human insecurity in the village, especially women, and how

this contributes to peace building in the village. This research was conducted in the village of

Sidomulyo, Batu City, East Java Province, Indonesia, which since 2018 has declared itself as

peace Village. The approach used is the Human Security Approach (HSA) because this

approach is centered on humans as objects for peace or development and provides space for
individuals as subjects, security references, and ultimately security providers. This research was

conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic, which eventually becomes the context in several

areas of human security. The results show that women in this village feel that the Covid-19

pandemic threatens their economic and health security. The environment is also threatened

due to the massive development of the tourism industry. Personal insecurity mainly arises
because domestic violence cases are still never resolved through the legal mechanism.

Community insecurity arises several times when new settlers and minorities show different

symbols of identity. In the political area, although there have been many women's

empowerment programs in this village, the quality and quantity of women's involvement in

the policy-making process are still very limited

Keywords: Human Security Approaches, rural women, peacebuilding

Short Biography:

Mely Noviryani A lecturer in International Relations Department Faculty of Social and

Political Sciences and a researcher in Gender Research Center at Universitas Brawijaya.

Also a researcher in Eutenika, a researcher association in Malang. This research is part of a

research on Peace Village conducted by Eutenika and the Wahid Foundation in 2020

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