This is a reader of scholarly articles authored by Africans and published by the University for Peace on issues of gender and peace building in Africa. This publication, which comes as a product of two Faculty and Staff Development Seminars on gender and peacebuilding, held in Kitwe, Zambia, has provided a platform to debate on current issues of gender in conflict situations, their destabilising consequences on the economic development of Africa and the efforts being made to build bridges of peace with a gender perspective.