''We are creating peace": Everyday Peace Practices of Displaced Women in Kenya and Germany

Edler, Hannah; Krause, Ulrike; Segadlo, Nadine

Zusammenfassung

This article explores how displaced women contribute to everyday peace in exile. While research debates largely focus on the nexus of conflict and displacement, peace and specifically displaced women’s peace practices have been widely overlooked. Drawing on Mac Ginty’s concept of everyday peace and Lister’s approach to agency, the array of practices displaced women use to foster everyday peace in their immediate environments in Kenya and Germany are examined. The findings reflect how they leverage their agency both individually and collectively in seeking to establish, sustain and reinstate peaceful conditions despite and indeed due to oftentimes precarious conditions in exile. They actively get out of dangerous situations in search for everyday peace in exile and get by challenges through establishing a form of peaceful normalcy. They further employ collective strategies in getting organised to contribute to peace and engage with activism to get back at injustices and restrictions.