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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Women in Conflict and Peace-Making....Pages 1-19
Women in Combat: Identifying Global Trends....Pages 20-35
Catch Them Young: Participation and Roles of Girl Child Soldiers in Armed Conflicts....Pages 36-52
Female Combatants, Peace Process and the Exclusion....Pages 53-68
Gendering Conflict Analysis: Analysing Israeli Female Combatants’ Experiences....Pages 69-83
Female Combatants in the Syrian Conflict, in the Fight against or with the IS, and in the Peace Process....Pages 84-99
Visible in Conflict, Invisible in Peace: Positioning Women in the Militancy in Kashmir....Pages 100-116
Victims or Victimizers? Naxal Women, Violence and the Reinvention of Patriarchy....Pages 117-131
Gendering Conflict and Peace-Building in Sierra Leone....Pages 132-148
Women at War, War on Women: Reconciliation and Patriarchy in Peru....Pages 149-166
Gendered Struggle for Freedom: A Narrative Inquiry into Female Ex-Combatants in South Africa....Pages 167-184
Challenging the Boundaries: The Narratives of the Female Ex-Combatants in Nepal....Pages 185-199
I Want My Wings Back to Fly in a New Sky: Stories of Female Ex-LTTE Combatants in Post-War Sri Lanka....Pages 200-215
Demobilized Women in Colombia: Embodiment, Performativity and Social Reconciliation....Pages 216-231
Untapped Resources for Peace: A Comparative Study of Women’s Organizations of Guerrilla Ex-Combatants in Colombia and El Salvador....Pages 232-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-254