Women and Armed Conflict: Re surging Violence
Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The modern nation-states witnessed armed conflict as an inevitable phenomenon. Women are most vulnerable section that bear the violence of armed conflict. The dominance of armed rebels and state‘s repression reinforces patriarchal space. As the conflict become more armed, it also became more masculinised. Women become the direct victim of all sufferings. Armed conflict smashes the social sectors of main requirement for women and their families. As the armed expenditures raises, there is less concern on health, education and other welfare services. Apart fromexperiencing the extreme form of violence, women are subjected to extra roles that emerges out of conflict. The paper attempts to understand the resurgence of violence experienced by women that erupt during armed conflict.
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Mehnaz Tabassum
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