When excluded from the peace table, women have often used parallel processes on their own. When locked out of the rooms where decisions are being made, women have presented their positions and recommendations through the ‘gaps under the doors’, spoken to delegates outside meetings, or demonstrated in the street, as occurred in Liberia in 2003 (box 5.7). Various studies have examined how women in several African countries such as Burundi, Liberia, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa have been involved in conflict resolution.