Conclusion: Mothers’ Spaces in Social Peace Processes

This final chapter concludes the book by revisiting the key findings and discussing how these sociological findings interact with and expand knowledge in the existing literature. This chapter comprises three parts. First, I summarise the discussions in the previous chapters and consider how my findings contribute to the sociological literature on risk and motherhood in modern societies. Second, I elaborate on how the respondents’ life stories interact with the idea of everyday life peacebuilding. I focus on two aspects of everyday life: namely, everyday life as social space and everyday life and its temporality. Third, this chapter discusses how my study advances the idea of everyday life peacebuilding. I will argue that while the concept enables the illumination of lives, thoughts and emotions of socially marginalised individuals, the concept needs to be examined through a gendered lens.