Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence,9781856498982

Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence

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ISBN13: 9781856498982
ISBN10: 1856498980
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-07-06
Publisher(s): Zed Books
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Summary

Increasing levels of global conflict and political violence provide a critical challenge for development theorists and practitioners. Many countries have endured decades of armed conflict, and others live under the permanent menace of political violence. Throughout, the gendered impacts of armed conflict and political violence are key issues. The gendered causes, costs, and consequences of violent conflicts have been underrepresented, and often misrepresented. This book gives a broader understanding of the complex, changing relations between women and men in societies facing violence and conflict.

Author Biography

Caroline O.N. Moser is Lead Specialist in Social Development in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department for the Latin American and Caribbean Region at the World Bank, Washington, DC.

Fiona Clark has been working in the Urban Peace Program since early 1999.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors
ix
Part I Contextual Issues on Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence 1(52)
Introduction
3(10)
Caroline O.N. Moser
Fiona C. Clark
The Gendered Dynamics of Armed Conflict and Political Violence
13(17)
Cynthia Cockburn
The Gendered Continuum of Violence and Conflict: An Operational Framework
30(23)
Caroline O.N. Moser
Part II The Politics of Victimization: Sexual Abuse and Violence 53(30)
The Political Economy of Rape: An Analysis of Systematic Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women during Armed Conflict in Africa
55(14)
Meredeth Turshen
The Body of the Other Man: Sexual Violence and the Construction of Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in the Croatian Media
69(14)
Dubravka Zarkov
Part III Gender, Power and Agency 83(32)
Rethinking Women's Struggles in Israel-Palestine and in the North of Ireland
85(14)
Simona Sharoni
Women and Communal Conflict: New Challenges for the Women's Movement in India
99(16)
Urvashi Butalia
Part IV Women as Actors in Armed Conflict and Political Violence 115(16)
El Salvador: War and Untold Stories - Women Guerrillas
117(14)
Ana Cristina Ibanez
Part V `Doing' and `Being': Questions of Identity in Displacement 131(18)
The Nostalgic Future: Terror, Displacement and Gender in Colombia
133(16)
Donny Meertens
Part VI Agency and Identity in Building Sustainable Peace 149(52)
Social Organizations: From Victims to Actors in Peace Building
151(13)
Isabel Coral Cordero
The Challenge to Inequality: Women, Discrimination and Decision-making in Northern Ireland
164(14)
Marie Mulholland
Gender and Social Capital in Contexts of Political Violence: Community Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala
178(23)
Caroline O. N. Moser
Cathy Mcllwaine
PART VII Gender and Voice in Truth and Reconciliation 201(16)
Locked into Loss and Silence: Testimonies of Gender and Violence at the South Africa Truth Commission
203(14)
Antjie Krog
Bibliography 217(19)
Index 236

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