Why does armed conflict recur, and what has gender got to do with it?

Most conflicts in the world in this century have been civil wars taking place in poor and fragile states: in 2010 it was reported that every conflict started since 2003 was a recurrence of a previous one.1 With this realisation in mind, the international community now devotes much attention to understanding how interventions in ‘post-conflict’ settings might be designed more effectively to minimise relapse. However, given the persistence of war globally, it is pertinent to ask how much progress has been made

The Impact of Training on Women's Micro-Enterprise Development

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Understanding sexual violence, HIV/AIDS and conflict

A broad gender approach is needed to understand the social context of HIV transmission within conflict environments

States of conflict : gender, violence and resistance /

Citizen-soldiers? Class, race, gender, sexuality and the US military / Francine D'AmicoEngendering the state in refugee women's claims for asylum / Heavan CrawleyGender, community, nation: the myth of innocence / Parita MuktaGlobalisation, states and women's agency: possibilities and pitfalls / Susie JacobsIntroduction: states of conflict / Ruth Jacobsen, Susie Jacobs an Jen MarchbankRe-packaging notions of security: a sceptical feminist response to recent efforts / Lee-Anne BroadheadRevealing silence: voices from South Africa / Teboho Maitse and Jen MarchbankShifting relationships and competing discourses in post-Mao China: the all-China women's federation and the People's Republic / Jude HowellTackling violence against women in Brazil: converting international principles into effective local policy / Fiona MacaulayTransforming conflict: some thoughts on a gendered understanding of conflict processes / Judy El-BushraWars against women: sexual violence, sexual politics and the militarised state / Liz KellyWomen and peace in Northern Ireland: a complicated relationship / Ruth Jacobse

Women and armed conflict in the Philippines: narrative portraits of women on the ground

This article reconstructs the stories of three women who experienced armed conflict in the Philippines. Their narratives were documented through the process of individual storytelling, an exercise that involved reflexive meaning creation on the part of the storyteller. Thus, even as there have been numerous studies reflecting the discourses of women\u27s victimization/vulnerability and agency in the context of armed conflict, this article stands by the importance of each and every story told by each and every woman. In other words, beyond the project of narrative documentation and analysis lies that marginal space where stories told are not just valuable for the hard data they contain; their significance must also be seen from the vantage points of storytellers as co-creators of knowledge that can provide alternative perspectives on the linearity of the discourses of women\u27s victimization/vulnerability and agency