Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia

Edited by Adam Moe Fejerskov, Senior Researcher, Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark Meron Zeleke, Associate Professor and Dereje Feyissa, Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

• Contents1 Towards a decolonizing multi-nodal understanding of norms 1Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Adam Moe Fejerskov, Meron Zelekeand Dereje Feyissa2 Vanguardism: the limits of Ethiopia’s state feminism incombating violence against women 19Dereje Feyissa3 Global norms vs. local practices: the adjudication of intimatepartner violence cases in Addis Ababa 40Helen Abelle4 Unrecognized or silenced offence? Unveiling grassrootperceptions of marital rape and Ethiopia’s reluctance tocriminalize marital rape 60Meron Zeleke5 The role of local and global institutional actors in combatingchild marriage among girls at Quarit Woreda 78Yitaktu Tibebu6 Convergence and divergence of Ethiopian policies and globalnorms to eliminate violence against women 95Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Anchinesh Shiferaw Mulu7 The classroom as a site of norm engagement: on becoming anode in the gender normative order 114Fana Gebresenbet and Anchinesh Shiferaw Mulu8 African Union, gender violence and the positive masculinityapproach 134Karmen Tornius9 Norm engagement in conference room 4 of the UN buildingin New York 152Lars Engberg-Pedersen10 Thinking in the US and acting in Ethiopia: social norms,behaviouralism, and competing visions of gendered change 171Adam Moe Fejerskov

‘This book advances a welcome paradigm shift with regard to understanding global order through a multi-nodal framework to study norms. The book develops a decolonizing approach in order to distribute privileges thereby enabling a pluriversal understanding of how norms around violence against women are contested, translated, and transformed. It is an excellent contribution for scholars, experts, and practitioners interested in the ‘work’ of norms in a global context.’