Title : Women in War and Crisis Zones
Date : March 2003
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Abstract : Based on Working Paper No.21: Victoria Brittain, 'Women in War and Crisis Zones ? one key to Africa?s Wars of Underdevelopment'
The paper draws on research in war and post-war situations in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Colombia and Palestine to illustrate how modern wars have a disproportionate impact on women in patterns common to all continents. It underlines findings by many international organisations about the key role women could play in peace-building or reconciliation, but argues that this will not be possible without new imaginative interventions in areas such as justice and psycho-social health, and without a shift in gender power relations in many areas.