Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women

Kumudini Samuel is an Executive Committee member of DAWN, engaged in its cross-cutting work and concentrating on the domain of political restructuring and social transformation. She lives and works in Sri Lanka and is a co-founder and currently Director, Programmes and Research at the Women and Media Collective. Claire Slatter is a founding member and current Board Chair of DAWN. A Fijian national, she has a PhD in Public Policy from Massey University, New Zealand, and taught politics at the University of the South Pacific for 23 years. She has written, engaged in advocacy and done consulting work on issues of regional concern including neoliberal reforms, trade liberalisation, democracy and human rights, and gender and development.Vagisha Gunasekara is a Sri Lankan researcher, affiliated with the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA), Sri Lanka. She received her PhD in Political Science from Purdue University, USA.

• Introduction: Framing a South Feminist Analysis of War, Conflict and Violence Against Women: the value of a political economy lens - Kumudini Samuel and Vagisha Gunasekara 1: The construction of the ‘responsible woman’: Structural Violence in Sri Lanka’s Post-War Development Strategy - Vagisha Gunasekara and Vijay K. Nagaraj 2: Ending Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands Region: The role of the State, Local Civil Society and Extractive Industries - Elizabeth Cox 3: Rural Women in Colombia: From Victims to Actors - Cecilia López Montaño And María-Claudia Holstine 4: Political Economy of Violence Against Women Case Studies: Egypt, Iraq and Syria - Doaa Abdelaal5: Contesting Territoriality: patriarchy, accumulation and dis-possession. “Entrenched Peripherality”: Women, political economy and the myth of peacebuilding in North East India - Roshmi Goswami 6: Re-imagining Subversion: Agency and women’s peace activism in Northern Uganda - Yaliwe Clarke and Constance O’Brien7: The Prism of Marginalisation: Political Economy of Violence Against Women in Sudan and South Sudan - Fahima Hashim