Abstract
Discourses on peacebuilding in Zambia revolve around the country’s contributions to the liberation struggles, hosting of refugees, and engagement in peacekeeping missions. The narratives of individuals who contributed to the country’s role in peacebuilding remained obscured in national discourses on peacebuilding and development in contemporary times. Therefore, this chapter draws on a narrative research design by restorying the narrative of Doreen Mazuba Malambo (the 2020 UN woman police officer of the year award winner) to show the interconnectedness of gender, religion, peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development Goal 16 (on the promotion of just, peaceful, and inclusive societies) in Zambia. It shows that Malambo’s contributions to peacebuilding were at local and international levels through her service to the Zambia Police Service and deployment with the United Nations Missions. Besides being a gender advisor, she helped to establish the Stand Up for Rights of Women and Girls Initiative, thereby promoting gender mainstreaming, peacebuilding, and development in different fronts. The chapter concludes that the contributions of Malambo were shaped by her personal experiences as a woman, an officer of the law, gender activist, and her religious worldview. This chapter argues that although the interaction of gender, religion, peacebuilding and development is often centred on institutionalised religion, religion at a personal level also remains a resource for contributing towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal number 16.
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Lusaka is located close to the center of the country. All major routes to the east, west, north, and south flow through the city. The capital covers an area of 70 km2 and is at an altitude of 1300 metres above sea level. (https://www.zambiatourism.com/towns/lusaka/)
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Lilayi Police Training College is located in the Southern part of Lusaka off the Kafue Road (Southern route). It is about 15 kms the Central Business District (CBD) of Lusaka. The college was opened in 1955 with objective of training police officers and judiciary officers in drill and law according to the British enacted laws, but over time (1965) the mandate has changed to providing training and development to the Police Service officers to meet the highest national and international policing standards (http://www.zambiapolice.gov.zm/index.php/advanced-stuff/docs-and-support).
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Mazabuka is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia, lying about 75 miles South West of Lusaka, on the Lusaka—Livingstone road (Highway T1) and the railway to Livingstone (https://www.zambia-info.org/country/town/1332/mazabuka; https://www.latlong.net/place/mazabuka-southern-province-zambia-24445.html).
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She was the Zambian High Commissioner to Kenya in 2021.
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In the Zambian context, these are elderly women who induct young women during marriage rites.
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Mwale, N., Chita, J., Mulunda, H. (2023). Gender, Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Zambia: Doreen Mazuba Malambo’s Trajectory in Peacekeeping Missions. In: Kilonzo, S.M., Chitando, E., Tarusarira, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36829-5_37
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