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

by Moser, Caroline N. O.; Clark, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9781856498982
• ISBN10: 1856498980
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-06
• Publisher: Zed Books

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