Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

It is an excellent qualitative study that not only interrogates the role of church leadership in incorporating women and children into peacebuilding programs, but also addresses the disproportionate impact of political violence on women and children. The study further proposes, in a very practical way, a transformative and gender-sensitive approach to church-led peace interventions.

The intersection of African feminist theology and the Theory of Religious Peacebuilding as the theoretical framework provides important lenses for addressing the gendered approach to the role of churches and religion in political violence.

There is no consistency between the in-text references and the reference list at the end of the chapter. Many authors are missing, including Mude, Bengesai and Chikhungu, Fricker, Manyonganise, and Mapuranga. (Need to correct).

Author Response

Comment 1: There is no consistency between the in-text references and the reference list at the end of the chapter. Many authors are missing, including Mude, Bengesai and Chikhungu, Fricker, Manyonganise, and Mapuranga. (Need to correct).

Response: Consistency has been ensured for in-text and reference list. The missing sources have all been added in the revised reference list.

 

Thank you for the comment

 

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thanks for submitting this valuable study of Zimbabwean women lived violence experiences and the churches responses. 

Please see the uploaded manuscript and note my stylistics issues about providing page numbers, as in the introduction section,  quotation marks, us of surname only (p. 14), and in-text citations where I mentioned.

Address my line-by- line comments in the abstract, line 86 page 2.  

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Comment 1: Please see the uploaded manuscript and note my stylistics issues about providing page numbers, as in the introduction section,  quotation marks, us of surname only (p. 14), and in-text citations where I mentioned.

Response: Thank you kindly for pointing this out and for generously highlighting the exact points for improvements in detail. I have thoroughly addressed and corrected all comments in the manuscript. I have provided the requested page numbers, quotation marks, consistent use of surname only in-text. Thank you for your guidances.

Comment 2: Address my line-by- line comments in the abstract, line 86 page 2.  
Thank you for pointing this out. I have addressed the comment in the abstract and provided the footnotes for explanation as requested for line 86 page 2.

I appreciate your kind assistance in making this article fit for publication.