through cultural or social means.64 From training security sector organisations on UNSCR 1325 and working with women from affected populations on preventing and countering radicalism65to feeding community consultative processes into ongoing peace processes,66 women’s interventions at various levels can enrich peacebuilding. In practice, women in peacebuilding have demonstrated a knack for bypassing bureaucracies and politics to deploy a number of tactics in peacebuilding beyond the ‘negotiation table’ to advance peace and security objectives. The example below from illustrates some of these strategies where women across the political sphere worked with those in government, civil society, development organisations . Transboundary peace activism: women at work Women are using innovative ways to contribute to formal peace processes. This involves tapping into informal and formal networks, mobilising women’s grassroots connections, maintaining visibility in parallel peace agenda and processes to ensure that gender concerns and interests remain pertinent and visible. In Uganda during the Juba Peace talks that commenced between government and the Lord’s Resistance Army between 2006-8, the talks were dominated by government and military leaders, combatants and traditional leaders, with women highly absent. Perceiving the process as focusing on ‘strictly military questions’67 women peacebuilders set out to influence the peace talks process and build a groundswell 64 Angom S. (2018) Case Studies of Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: Empirical Evidence. In: Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda. The Anthropocene: Politik-Economics-Society-Science, vol 22. Springer, Cham 65 ICAN ‘Robinah Rubimbwa on How Women Played a Crucial Role in Peace Talks with LRA in UgandaApr 20, 2017. Available at https://www.icanpeacework.org/2017/04/20/robinah-rubimbwa-uganda/ 66 Musoke H ‘Transitional justice and gender in Uganda: Making peace, failing women during the peace negotiation process’ Journal Home, Vol 9, No 2 (2009) 67 Anna Svenson Towards Sustainable Peace in Uganda?- a study of peacebuilding in northern Uganda and the involvement of the civil society during the LRA/ government of Uganda peace process of 2006-2007’ 2007 Vaxjo University. Available at https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:205253/FULLTEXT01.pdf 31