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Endemic worldwide and strong in Malawi, Gender Based Violence permeates all structures of society. So lecturers and students of Mzuzu University in Northern Malawi have worked together to find the reality and any attempts to remedy it. The articles represent research in different communities of the three regions of Malawi. One article presents the background study from which the Mzuzu University Gender Policy was developed, another shows the role of a Police Victim Support Unit, and the final article relates Muslim teaching that should reduce the incidence of Gender Based Violence in Muslim communities. The role of religion is addressed with negative and positive examples.
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Gender Based Violence in Malawi
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Gender Based Violence in Malawi
Critiquing Beliefs and Practices that Impede Gender Equality
Edited by
Rachel NyaGondwe Fiedler and Chrispin Mphande Mzuzu 2024
Contents
Foreword 6RHODIANMUNYENYEMBEChapter 1: Introduction 8RACHELNYAGONDWEFIEDLER,CHRISPINMPHANDE AND RHODIANMUNYENYEMBEChapter 2: Gender Equality and Inequality [for Students and Staff] on Mzuzu University Campus 17RACHELNYAGONDWEFIEDLER,MTAFUMANDA,CHRISPIN MPHANDE,GEORGEMHANGO,AMBUMULIREITIMU-PHIRIChapter 3: Gender Based Violence and Marriage 38PHILLIPDINALAChapter 4: Gender Based Violence and Tonga Women in a High-Density Suburb of Mzuzu in Northern Malawi 69TWAMBILIREKAYUNIChapter 5: Can Teachings and Practices in Church Promote Gender Based Violence? A Reflection on Experiences of Women in the Apostolic Mazoe Church in Malawi 83PAULGUNDEChapter 6: Challenges to the Police in Rooting Out Gender Based Violence Cases in Patrilineal Cultures of Northern Malawi 101PETERKALAGHOChapter 7: Gender Based Violence among the Matrilineal Chewa of Mchinji District 112PHILONIAYAMBANIChapter 8: PICC and Domestic Violence against Children in Lilongwe in Central Malawi 121ALFONSINAMPANDOChapter 9: The Church, the Courts and Gender Based Violence in Zomba Area 132THANDIECHINDONGOChapter 10: Marriage Instructions against GBV: The Muslim Way 150NAZIRAHMALONGA
Chapter 11: Conclusion RACHELFIEDLER,COGITATORMAPALA,JOYCEMLENGA,RHODIANMUNYENYEMBE,FRANCISKUDZULA,MERVIS KHOROMANA ANDGRACESAGUGAPostscript DENNISG.WILLMSBibliography
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Foreword The Department of Theology and Religious Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Mzuzu University is thrilled to release its first anthology in a series of publications that capture research products from its undergraduate students and staff. This book has come through a cooperative effort between students and faculty of Mzuzu University as a product of their engagement in undergraduate studies. This means that the contributions in this book have gone through much academic reflection and review by the supervising lecturers in this field. Unlike in some institutions where students hand in their dissertations without oral defense, it is the requirement at Mzuzu University that students present their dissertations orally to the lecturers and fellow students who give input that enhances the quality of dissertations before final submission. Again, there has been a rigorous review and editing when converting the dissertations into book chapters to ensure high quality. Thus, the quality of the chapters in this volume is relatively high despite the researchers͛undergraduate status. This anthology is an attempt to promote mentorship to upcoming scholars. It has eleven chapters, most of which come from students who majored in Theology and Religious Studies.These studeŶts͛ dissertations have been reviewed and edited by the two editors, one from the Department of History and Heritage Studies and the other from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, contributing to the commitment of Mzuzu University to promote interdisciplinary research.
Mzuzu University won a grant from UNDP to develop its first gender policy in cooperation with the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare. The anthology also contains a chapter on the results of a baseline study that Mzuzu University Gender Policy Task Force members carried out towards developing its first Mzuzu University Gender Policy that was in 2017. The book has a conclusion by some faculty members of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies as a reflection on what could be done to mitigate Gender Based Violence through curriculum reforms and practical reforms in religious practice.
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Since issues of Gender Based Violence have been written mainly from a practical and experiential point of view, there is a lack of extended theoretical discussion on the theme. Nevertheless, the book has iinfo that is essential to dealing with issues of Gender Based Violence in our various contexts. The Mzuzu University Gender Policy encourages members of this institution to gender-ƌespoŶsiǀe ŵateƌials foƌ the uŶiǀeƌsitLJ͛s academic programmes. Therefore this book on Gender Based Violence is well suited for teaching, learning, and researching in the institution and beyond. As Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, I highly recommend this anthology to those that require knowledge on Gender Based Violence in Malawi. Rhodian Munyenyembe (PhD) Head of Department Theology and Religious Studies Mzuzu University, Malawi January 2024
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Rachel NyaGondwe Fiedler, Chrispin Mphande and Rhodian Munyenyembe
The teƌŵ ͞GeŶdeƌ Based VioleŶĐe͟ is defiŶed asnkhanza (ill-treatment) of persons or groups of people by others based on either ďeiŶg ŵale oƌ feŵale. ͚PatƌiaƌĐhLJ͛ is at the ĐeŶtƌe of promoting GeŶdeƌ Based VioleŶĐe. ͚PatƌiaƌĐhLJ͛ is siŵplLJ defiŶed as a sLJstem of ideologies and practices that favour men and boys. However, a new word coined by Elisabeth Fiorenza-Schüssler, kyriarchy, brings in the new understanding that dominance, kingship in general, fuels Gender Based Violence. Kyriarchy is about authority and whoever has authority may use it to bring GBV on others. This authority is galvanized, for example, by the earning power of an individual, as well as oŶe͛s Đultuƌe aŶd ƌeligioŶ. Foƌ edžaŵple, iŶ Malaǁi, ŵoƌe ŵeŶ thaŶ women have authority because cultural and religious beliefs have robbed women of opportunities to achieve economic progress and this has made them more vulnerable to GBV. Theoretical Underpinnings of the Anthology We utilize a gender framework based on theories of African Feminist Theologians and Social Science. The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians͛Circle (The ͛s) perspectives of gender inequality argue for the role of religion and culture in reinforcing gender inequalities and that deconstructing cultures and religious practices that promote inequality is a way of attaining gender equality. This theory is embedded in the social science gender inequality framework that argues for deconstructing social norms and practices that reinforce gender inequality to realize a just world. There are many scholarly works that have utilized the gender inequality theory in promoting gender equality from the theological perspective. Nyambura Njoroge, for example, argues that in East Africa, Female Genital Mutilation has been highlighted as an example of GBV even among Christians. Nyambura Njoroge records the activities of women of the Presbyterian Church of Kenya staging a resistance against the practice that brought positive awareness on the 8
dangers of Female Genital Mutilation among the Kikuyu girls and 1 women. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, from Ghana, West Africa, highlighted how barrenness has been a reason for subjecting women to acts of GBV. Some works on Malawi include the work by Isabel Apawo Phiri. She has been lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the 2 University of Malawi and Deputy General Secretary of the World 3 Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. During her time in Malawi Isabel Apawo Phiri challenged women in Malawi to research and write on the theme: "Violence against Women." This research was on rape and sexual harassment in educational institutions, with Chancellor College as a case study. Isabel Apawo Phiri and three of her colleagues, Linda Semu, Flora Nankhuni and Nyovani Madise, presented a paper at the University of Malawi Research Dissemination Conference in 1995, soon after Malawi became a democratic nation. Isabel Apawo Phiri was attacked verbally by many within the academic community at Chancellor College and in addition her house was 4 stoned. At this time issues that dealt with rape and sexual harassment were not openly discussed as they were considered as a taboo in Malawi. Even though, issues of Gender Based Violence were discussed freely in the earlier years at global conferences such as those organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) and the 1979-1986 Decade of Women. Few Malawian women and men participated in such conferences especially during the one-party era when there was much restriction 5 on freedom of association in activities that promoted liberation. A work by Isabel Apawo Phiri broke the silence on the issue of how 1 Nyambura Njoroge,Kiama Kia Ngo. An African Christian Feminist Ethic of Resistance and Transformation, Legon: Legon Theological Studies, 2000. 2 The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians was formed in 1989, in Accra, Ghana by Mercy Amba Oduyoye and the first Malawi Chapter was founded by Isabel Apawo Phiri at Chancellor College, then a Constituent College of the University of Malawi. 3 She is now the Vice Chancellor of Blantyre Synod University. 4 Rachel NyaGondwe Fiedler,A History of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (1989-2007), Mzuzu: Mzuni Press, 2017, 10-40, 82. 5 Ibid, 100. 9
