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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict ((PSCAC))

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Abstract

The scholarly literature on women and war is limited and the narratives of female ex-combatants detailing experiences of state violence during the Conflict in Northern Ireland have until recently been conspicuously absent, although there are some exceptions (see Aretxaga 1997; Brady et al. 2011; Corcoran 2006a, 2006b; Darragh 2012). Women’s experiences have been relegated to the shadows of more ‘significant’ historical events during the Conflict.

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Notes

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    Che Guevara allied with Fidel Castro and was a key member in the revolutionary movement that disposed of the Bolivian Batista regime in 1959.

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    Colleen: Gaelic for a girl or young woman.

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    UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

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    These definition issues are addressed further in Brewer (2010) and Brewer et al. (2011).

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    Until 1995 the global conference on women had focused on economic developmental issues.

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Wahidin, A. (2016). Women, War and Peace. In: Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland. Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36330-5_2

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