Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration

268 Pages·2015·1.89 MB·English

by  Seema Shekhawat (eds.)

Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace

Female Combatants in
Conflict and Peace
Challenging Gender in Violence and
Post-Conflict Reintegration
Editedby
Seema Shekhawat
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
Introduction:WomeninConflictandPeace-Making 1
SeemaShekhawat
1 WomeninCombat:IdentifyingGlobalTrends 20
CarolMann
2 CatchThemYoung:ParticipationandRolesofGirlChild
SoldiersinArmedConflicts 36
ShawnaCarroll
3 FemaleCombatants,PeaceProcessandtheExclusion 53
SeemaShekhawatandBishnuPathak
4 GenderingConflictAnalysis:AnalysingIsraeliFemale
Combatants’Experiences 69
AyeletHarel-ShalevandShirDaphna-Tekoah
5 FemaleCombatantsintheSyrianConflict,intheFightagainst
orwiththeIS,andinthePeaceProcess 84
EmanuelaC.DelRe
6 VisibleinConflict,InvisibleinPeace:PositioningWomenin
theMilitancyinKashmir 100
SeemaShekhawat
7 VictimsorVictimizers?NaxalWomen,Violenceandthe
ReinventionofPatriarchy 117
SeemaShekhawatandChayanikaSaxena
8 GenderingConflictandPeace-BuildinginSierraLeone 132
JohnIdrissLahai
9 WomenatWar,WaronWomen:ReconciliationandPatriarchy
inPeru 149
CamilleBoutron
10 GenderedStruggleforFreedom:ANarrativeInquiryinto
FemaleEx-CombatantsinSouthAfrica 167
SofiaAxelsson
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11 ChallengingtheBoundaries:TheNarrativesoftheFemale
Ex-CombatantsinNepal 185
SwechchhaDahal
12 IWantMyWingsBacktoFlyinaNewSky:StoriesofFemale
Ex-LTTECombatantsinPost-WarSriLanka 200
FazeehaAzmi
13 DemobilizedWomeninColombia:Embodiment,
PerformativityandSocialReconciliation 216
PriscyllAnctilAvoineandRachelTillman
14 UntappedResourcesforPeace:AComparativeStudyof
Women’sOrganizationsofGuerrillaEx-Combatantsin
ColombiaandElSalvador 232
LuisaMariaDietrichOrtega
Index 250
Acknowledgements
This volume would not have been possible without the support of family,
friends, contributors, respondents and uncounted others. I am grateful to
all of them. I am thankful to my contributors for sharing the passion to
explore an unexciting issue. I am indebted to my dear friends Chayanika
Saxena and Veronica Fynn for promptly extending all possible help as and
whenrequired.
I thank Eleanor Davey-Corrigan, Commissioning Editor at Palgrave
Macmillan,andherteamfortheirenthusiasticsupport.
The constant personal and professional encouragement of my husband
Aurobinda is beyond the confines of words. He shares credit on each goal
I achieve. I express my gratitude to my four-year-old son, Asim, the joy
of my life. I owe many smiles to my nephews, Aditya, Ayush, Amar and
Naman,andniece,Shreya.Iamforeverindebtedtomydearsisters,Laxmi,
Amrit and Susheel, and brother, Shailender, for their unstinting support.
They altruistically extend help as and when I need it, though I often fail
toreciprocate.Iappreciatetheencouragementofmybrothers-in-law,Dilip,
Sunil and Vishal, and sister-in-law, Renu. Finally, I thank my parents for
beingthebiggestsupportthroughout.Idedicatethisbooktothem.
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