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Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace

Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration

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  1. Seema Shekhawat
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This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace. Through an examination of theory and practice of women's participation in violent conflicts, the book makes the argument that both conflict and post-conflict situations are gender insensitive.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Women in Conflict and Peace-Making

    • Seema Shekhawat
    Pages 1-19

  3. Women in Combat: Identifying Global Trends

    • Carol Mann
    Pages 20-35

  4. Catch Them Young: Participation and Roles of Girl Child Soldiers in Armed Conflicts

    • Shawna Carroll
    Pages 36-52

  5. Female Combatants, Peace Process and the Exclusion

    • Seema Shekhawat, Bishnu Pathak
    Pages 53-68

  6. Gendering Conflict Analysis: Analysing Israeli Female Combatants’ Experiences

    • Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Shir Daphna-Tekoah
    Pages 69-83

  7. Female Combatants in the Syrian Conflict, in the Fight against or with the IS, and in the Peace Process

    • Emanuela C. Del Re
    Pages 84-99

  8. Visible in Conflict, Invisible in Peace: Positioning Women in the Militancy in Kashmir

    • Seema Shekhawat
    Pages 100-116

  9. Victims or Victimizers? Naxal Women, Violence and the Reinvention of Patriarchy

    • Seema Shekhawat, Chayanika Saxena
    Pages 117-131

  10. Gendering Conflict and Peace-Building in Sierra Leone

    • John Idriss Lahai
    Pages 132-148

  11. Women at War, War on Women: Reconciliation and Patriarchy in Peru

    • Camille Boutron
    Pages 149-166

  12. Gendered Struggle for Freedom: A Narrative Inquiry into Female Ex-Combatants in South Africa

    • Sofia Axelsson
    Pages 167-184

  13. Challenging the Boundaries: The Narratives of the Female Ex-Combatants in Nepal

    • Swechchha Dahal
    Pages 185-199

  14. I Want My Wings Back to Fly in a New Sky: Stories of Female Ex-LTTE Combatants in Post-War Sri Lanka

    • Fazeeha Azmi
    Pages 200-215

  15. Demobilized Women in Colombia: Embodiment, Performativity and Social Reconciliation

    • Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Rachel Tillman
    Pages 216-231

  16. Untapped Resources for Peace: A Comparative Study of Women’s Organizations of Guerrilla Ex-Combatants in Colombia and El Salvador

    • Luisa Maria Dietrich Ortega
    Pages 232-249

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 250-254
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Reviews

''This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the gendered dynamics of women's involvement in political violence from mobilization to disarmament and reintegration. The contributors have conducted invaluable ethnographic research from across the globe that is posited within rigorous feminist theorising.'' - Dr Caron Gentry, University of St Andrews

About the authors

Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Bishnu Pathak, Peace and Conflict Studies Centre, Nepal Camille Boutron, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France Carol Mann, Sorbonne and Sciences Po, France Chayanika Saxena, Ashoka University, India Emanuela C. Del Re, University NiccolòCusano, Italy Fazeeha Azmi, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka John Idriss Lahai, Flinders University, Australia Luisa Maria Dietrich Ortega, University of Vienna, Austria Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Santo Tomás University and Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia Rachel Tillman, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Shawna Carroll, WAHA International, France Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel Sofia Axelsson, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), South Africa Swechchha Dahal, Shantimalika (Women Network for Peace), Nepal

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