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Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone

Author : Megan H. MacKenzie
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479852503
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone written by Megan H. MacKenzie and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed. While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to create a general picture of women and girls as victims of the conflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers’ involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone draws on interviews with 75 former female soldiers and over 20 local experts, providing a rare perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict development efforts in the country. Megan MacKenzie argues that post-conflict reconstruction is a highly gendered process, demonstrating that a clear recognition and understanding of the roles and experiences of female soldiers are central to both understanding the conflict and to crafting effective policy for the future.

Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers

Author : Chris Coulter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457246
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers written by Chris Coulter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful in helping them resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and demobilization processes carried out by the international community in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a living. Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations.

Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace

Author : Seema Shekhawat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137516569
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Child Soldiers

Author : Myriam S. Denov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521872243
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Child Soldiers written by Myriam S. Denov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.

Young Female Fighters in African Wars

Author : Chris Coulter
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171066275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Young Female Fighters in African Wars written by Chris Coulter and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the stereotype of women in African wars as victims only, this book shows how in modern African wars women have often been as active as men. Female fighters are victimized, yet they are not mere victims. Girls and young women who volunteer to fight often possess quite considerable strength and independence.

The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security

Author : Sara E. Davies
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0190638273
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security written by Sara E. Davies and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in peace and security processes, and support for women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and rebuilding of societies after conflict. Implementation within and across states and international organizations - and within peace and security operations - has been slow despite significant transnational advocacy in support of the WPS agenda. The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security brings together scholars, advocates, and policymakers to provide an overview of what we know concerning what works to promote women's participation in peace and security, what works to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and what works to prevent conflict drawing on women's experiences and knowledge of building peace from local to global levels. Just as importantly, it addresses the gaps in knowledge on and the future direction of scholarship on WPS. The handbook particularly aims to build on the findings from the 2015 Global Study of Resolution 1325, commissioned by the UN-Secretary General. Over the course of six sections, the handbook addresses the concepts and early history behind WPS; the theory and practice of WPS; international institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of WPS in conflict prevention, peace operations, peace building, arms control, human-rights protection, and protection of civilians; connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas; and the ongoing and future challenges of WPS.

Beyond the Band of Brothers

Author : Megan MacKenzie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107049768
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Band of Brothers written by Megan MacKenzie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of women in the US military and the key arguments used to justify the combat exclusion policy.

Young Soldiers

Author : Rachel Brett
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221137184
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Young Soldiers written by Rachel Brett and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that more than 300,000 children are involved in armed conflicts throughout the world, the vast majority through forced labour. This publication contains the personal views and experiences of child soldiers, highlighting a number of factors contributing to their participation, including the socio-economic and political environment, and their vulnerable personal circumstances, as well as how diverse risk factors interact. These personal stories also draw attention to the gender dimensions of the problem, and to concept of child soldiers 'volunteering' in armed conflict situations. The book then goes on to explore key factors in the development of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the problem, including addressing issues of breakdown of law and order, availability of weapons, extreme forms of social exclusion including poverty and inequality, lack of educational opportunities, widespread child abuse and child labour. The publication includes profiles of conflict situations in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Congo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Liberia's Women Veterans

Author : Leena Vastapuu
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786990857
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Liberia's Women Veterans written by Leena Vastapuu and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences have largely been excluded from accounts of the conflict. In Liberia’s Women Veterans, Leena Vastapuu uses an innovative auto-photographic methodology to tell the story of two of Africa’s most brutal civil wars through the eyes of 133 female former soldiers. Incorporating their testimonies alongside a series of vivid illustrations by Emmi Nieminen, the book provides an in-depth account of these women’s experiences of trauma, stigma, and the challenges of reintegration into post-war society, as well as their hopes and aspirations for the future. Vastapuu argues that these women, too often been perceived merely as passive victims of the conflict, can in fact play an important role in post-war reconciliation and peace-building. Overturning gendered perceptions of warfare and militarism, the book provides a unique take on humanitarian practices and post-conflict societies, making essential reading for policymakers as well as students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Beyond the Band of Brothers

Author : Megan MacKenzie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316352064
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Band of Brothers written by Megan MacKenzie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women can't fight. This assumption lies at the heart of the combat exclusion, a policy that was fiercely defended as essential to national security, despite evidence that women have been contributing to hostile operations now and throughout history. This book examines the role of women in the US military and the key arguments used to justify the combat exclusion, in the light of the decision to reverse the policy in 2013. Megan MacKenzie considers the historic role of the combat exclusion in shaping American military identity and debunks claims that the recent policy change signals a new era for women in the military. MacKenzie shows how women's exclusion from combat reaffirms male supremacy in the military and sustains a key military myth, the myth of the band of brothers. This book will be welcomed by scholars and students of military studies, gender studies, social and military history, and foreign policy.

The Hello Girls

Author : Elizabeth Cobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674237439
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Hello Girls written by Elizabeth Cobbs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans’ benefits and medals, and won.

From Combat to Community

Author : Dyan E. Mazurana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932679021
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book From Combat to Community written by Dyan E. Mazurana and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Women soldiers of Dahomey

Author : Masioni, Pat
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231000578
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Women soldiers of Dahomey written by Masioni, Pat and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender, Conflict, and Development

Author : Tsjeard Bouta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821359686
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Conflict, and Development written by Tsjeard Bouta and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on the gender dimensions of intrastate conflicts (civil wars), organised around eight key themes of gender and warfare, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, post-conflict legal frameworks, work issues, rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development. For each theme, the authors examine the impact on gender roles of conflict situations, the development challenges involved, and the policy options available to help build more inclusive and gender balanced post-conflict societies.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030280987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies written by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Child Soldiers in Africa

Author : Alcinda Honwana
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204778
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Child Soldiers in Africa written by Alcinda Honwana and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media. A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.

Feminism and International Relations

Author : J. Ann Tickner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136724796
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and International Relations written by J. Ann Tickner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important introduction to feminist International Relations discusses the history, present and future of the field. With a unique format, it examines issues including global governance, the United Nations, war, peace, security, science, beauty and human rights.