Women in Military Strategy: A Review of Women Emancipation and Protection (original) (raw)

Wanita Dalam Strategi Perang: Tinjauan Emansipasi Dan Perlindungan Wanita

Jurnal Pertahanan & Bela Negara

Baik dalam konflik dan perang maupun upaya perdamaian, wanita dianggap sebagai korban dari pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan kelompok rentan. Dalam beberapa dekade terakhir, perlindungan terhadap hak wanita dan pemberdayaan wanita digaungkan dengan nama emansipasi. Hal ini menyebabkan kehadiran wanita dalam beberapa sektor penting, termasuk politik dan militer, sehingga wanita mempunyai peranan baru sebagai sumber daya dalam strategi perang. Dampaknya, kebijakan perlindungan wanita dalam perang dipertanyakan, khususnya berkaitan dengan posisi mereka sebagai kombatan. Analisis isu ini seharusnya menggunakan dua konsep (perlindungan wanita dan strategi perang) untuk memahami cara pandang militer terhadap posisi wanita dan satu teori (feminisme) untuk memahami cara pandang wanita terhadap peranannya dalam militer saat perang berlangsung. Dengan demikian, objek observasi ini adalah peranan wanita dalam strategi perang dikaitkan dengan pelaksanaan perlindungan hak wanita dan isu emansipa...

War Crimes Trials and the Just War Tradition

The discourses surrounding the development of the just war tradition and the discourse surrounding the development of international criminal law have long influenced one another. 1 Walzer reminds us that Grotius and Pufendorf deliberately incorporated just war theory into international law. 2 Still, the international criminal law and just war discourses are conceptually and practically very distinct, and few participants in either discourse directly utilize the terms of the other.

From Fighters to Peacemakers? South Sudanese Women War Veterans in Conflict and Peacebuilding

MSc International Development Studies - Master's Thesis: From Fighters to Peacemakers? South Sudanese Women War Veterans in Conflict and Peacebuilding, 2020

Women war veterans in South Sudan were active in armed conflicts at the front as well as in peacebuilding efforts in their home communities. In 2000, the United Nation Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) was adapted to include women with their unique conflict experiences and needs in decision-making positions in conflict resolution. Twenty years later, this thesis explores how efforts linked to UNSCR 1325 are implemented in the case study of South Sudanese women war veterans. I explore factors within the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme which facilitated or hampered benefits for former women soldiers in the country, contributed to or restrained their meaningful participation in peace processes, and how their contributions to combat and peace have been acknowledged. To answer the research questions, eighteen qualitative interviews were conducted. Ten South Sudanese women war veterans who had participated in DDR and local peace processes, as well as eight WPS experts, were interviewed. In this process, I identified the following factors which deprived women from benefits intended by the DDR programme: lacking security at DDR sites, insufficient theoretical training, culturally insensitive childcare services, the prevention of a stable income and the failure to foster basic security in South Sudan. The thesis concluded that achievements by women war veterans in combat and peacebuilding received only little attention as they continue to be side-lined in the national peace process. By applying the Feminist Peace and Conflict Theory (FPCT) in the analysis, I identified patriarchal structures and the hierarchical order in the South Sudanese society as well as the neoliberal approach in international peacebuilding as potential root causes for the lacking implementation of UNSCR 1325 on the ground.

Women and War: an introduction

Kurdish Studies, 2018

In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long -term consequences, and to theory on gender, nation and (visual) representation. We investigate Kurdish women’s victimisation and marginalisation, but also their resistance and agency as female combatants and women activists, their portrayal by media and scholars, and their self-representation. We offer herewith a critical perspective on militarisation, women’s liberation, and women’s experiences in times of war and peace. We also introduce the five articles in this issue and discuss how they contribute to the study of women and war in two main areas: the wide-reaching effects of war on women’s lives, and the gendered representation and images of war in Kurdistan.

Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective

Kurdish Studies, Volume: 6, No: 1, pp. 5 – 30 , 2018

In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long-term consequences, and to theory on gender, nation and (visual) representation. We investigate Kurdish women's victimisation and marginalisation, but also their resistance and agency as female combatants and women activists, their portrayal by media and scholars, and their self-representation. We offer herewith a critical perspective on militarisation, women's liberation, and women's experiences in times of war and peace. We also introduce the five articles in this issue and discuss how they contribute to the study of women and war in two main areas: the wide-reaching effects of war on women's lives, and the gendered representation and images of war in Kurdistan. ABSTRACT IN KURMANJI Bîrdoza jin û şer li Kurdistanê. Perspektîveke femînîst û rexnegirî