Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
| College of Human Sciences |
| School of Social Sciences |
| Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies |
| Gender Studies |
| Professor Extraordinarius
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Qualifications
Prof. Anne Kubai
My current research can be roughly divided into three distinct yet often overlapping agendas: (a) religion in peace and conflict, gross violations of human rights, gender, transitional justice; (b) post-conflict social political reconstruction, development and the sustainability discourse; (c) international migration, human trafficking and prostitution, and transnationality. A great deal of my work has focused on peacebuilding and reconciliation after mass violence/grave violations of human rights. I have a keen interest in the way spiritualties (indigenous and others) shape social-political developments, post-conflict social reconstruction and the sustainability discourse in different parts of the world. My work on confession, forgiveness and reconciliation in Rwanda has contributed to the debates on peacebuilding and transitional justice after mass violence/grave violations of human rights. In my research, I seek to understand the different actors (state and non-state) in various conflicts, the nexus of religion and social processes (changing social/cultural institutions and the emerging ‘voids’) which are at work in the making and unmaking ethnicities; and the impact these can have on peace, sustainable development, psychosocial well-being, and stability of the communities concerned. I probe the link between poverty and conflict-generated international migration and human trafficking. In the last few years, I have become interested in exploring this link regarding African migrant communities in Sweden (and other places in Europe). My interest in the ways in which individuals and communities are affected by mobility, forced migration and displacement, has led me to research experiences of violence among African women migrants, psychosocial well-being of refugees, violence experienced by undocumented women migrants, women prostitutes who are victims of human trafficking and other categories of immigrants. My research is interdisciplinary, largely qualitative, and field-based, relying on a plurality of methods and theoretical approaches
