Gendered Conflicts: A Feminist Perspective on Knowledge of Conflict (original) (raw)

2003, Rubina Saigol, 'Gendered Conflicts: A Feminist Perspective on Knowledge of Conflict', Sangat Conference on Women, Development and Peace., Dhaka, Bangalesh

Feminist scholarship has enriched the area of conflict studies by inserting gender perspectives into the study of national, ethnic, sectarian, class, race and communal strife. In the past, the study of external and internal conflict was dominated purely by analyses focused on military strategy, the politics and economics of war, as well as struggles within the borders of a state. Such geo-strategic and geo-political studies tended to center on territory acquisition, war, political personalities, power struggles between different rulers, and the causes and consequences of international or intra-national conflict. Traditional scholarship on political, economic and social conflict typically tended to ignore the role of, as well as the impact upon, ordinary people and civilian populations.