Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace

Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelBishnu Pathak, Peace and Conflict Studies Centre, NepalCamille Boutron, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, FranceCarol Mann, Sorbonne and Sciences Po, FranceChayanika Saxena, Ashoka University, IndiaEmanuela C. Del Re, University NiccolòCusano, ItalyFazeeha Azmi, University of Peradeniya, Sri LankaJohn Idriss Lahai, Flinders University, AustraliaLuisa Maria Dietrich Ortega, University of Vienna, AustriaPriscyll Anctil Avoine, Santo Tomás University and Universidad Industrial de Santander, ColombiaRachel Tillman, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USAShawna Carroll, WAHA International, FranceShir Daphna-Tekoah, Ashkelon Academic College, IsraelSofia Axelsson, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), South AfricaSwechchha Dahal, Shantimalika (Women Network for Peace), Nepal

• Introduction: Women in Conflict and Peace Making; Seema Shekhawat1. Women in Combat: Identifying Global Trends; Carol Mann2. Catch them Young: Participation and Roles of Girl Child Soldiers in Armed Conflicts; Shawna Carroll3. Female Combatants, Peace Process and the Exclusion; Seema Shekhawat and Bishnu Pathak4. Gendering Conflict Analysis: Analyzing Israeli Female Combatants ' ' Experiences; Ayelet Harel-Shalev and Shir Daphna-Tekoah5. Female Combatants in the Syrian Conflict, in the Fight against or with the IS and in the Peace Process; Emanuela C. Del Re 6. Visible in Conflict, Invisible in Peace: Positioning Women in the Militancy in Kashmir; Seema Shekhawat7. Victims or Victimizers?: Naxal Women, Violence and the Re-invention of Patriarchy; Seema Shekhawat and Chayanika Saxena8. Gendering Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone; John Idriss Lahai9. Women at War, War on Women: Reconciliation and Patriarchy in Peru; Camille Boutron10. Gendered Struggle for Freedom: A Narrative Inquiry into Female Ex-Combatants in South Africa; Sofia Axelsson 11. Challenging the Boundaries: the Narratives of the Female Ex-combatants in Nepal; Swechchha Dahal12. I Want My Wings Back to Fly in a New Sky: Stories of Ex-female LTTE Combatants in Post-war Sri Lanka; Fazeeha Azmi13.Demobilized Women in Colombia: Embodiment, Performativity and Social Reconciliation; Priscyll Anctil Avoine and Rachel Tillman14. Untapped Resources for Peace: A Comparative Study of Women ' 's Organisations of Guerrilla Ex-combatants in Colombia and El Salvador; Luisa Maria Dietrich Ortega

"This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the gendered dynamics of women's involvement in political violence from mobilization to disarmament and reintegration. The contributors have conducted invaluable ethnographic research from across the globe that is posited within rigorous feminist theorising." - Dr Caron Gentry, University of St Andrews