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This anthology attempts to prioritize gender in conflict and peace. I conceived the project while scanning the literature for my book Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir. The paucity of works on female combatants prompted me to continue the research on this marginalized group. In the course of it, I interviewed male and female active and ex-combatants in select South Asian conflict-ridden regions — north and east India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The conflict scenarios were strikingly similar in one aspect — women were visible in conflict-making but invisible in peace-making. I then embarked on a journey to put together select cases from across the globe, not only to challenge the asymmetrical discourse on conflict and peace by positioning gender at its centre but also to revolutionize the prevalent discourse by factoring voices from the margins.
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Shekhawat, S. (2015). Introduction: Women in Conflict and Peace-Making. In: Shekhawat, S. (eds) Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516565_1
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