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Published in: 50.50Who do they think they are? War rapists as peopleWar is social, and examining soldier identity and male bonding may give us insight into how the incidence of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence and war: inevitable?
A key reason for the seeming ubiquity of sexual violence in war is not its inevitability, but the impunity...
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Published in: HomeThe Arms Trade Treaty: why women?
It would not be possible to rape women in front of their communities and families, on such a large scale in much of...
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Published in: 50.50‘N-A-T-O? What’s that stand for?’How can we cheer NATO for promising equality for women in an institution we deplore? We are saying: ‘military...
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Published in: 50.50War and 1325: principles or diversity checkbox ?
Why were women career soldiers, US defense contractors, female peace activists and Pentagon officials talking to...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
As a political instrument of power projection and status, nuclear weapons carry a peculiarly masculine symbolism. In...
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Published in: 50.50Civil society diplomats at the UN
" We’re not interested in making war safe for women… There are many substitutes for oil, but I can't think of a...
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Published in: 50.501325: an exciting moment
"If we’ve done as much with as little resources as women have, think what we could do with more. Women are the...
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Published in: 50.50Making women's opposition visible to NATO
NATO's continued 'mission creep' demands a degree of militarization that masculinizes and deforms everyday life. The...
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Published in: 50.50Peacework: to love a stranger
If we, who have paid the highest price can talk to each other, then everyone should be able to
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Published in: 50.50Interfaith peacework: a glimmer of solidarity
Just as borders, once drawn, become subject to militant patrol, so are the lives and bodies of women once they are...
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Published in: 50.50Religion, peace and gender
As the number of interfaith and faith-based peace initiatives grows, women peace activists from twenty one countries...
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Published in: 50.50Good substance, bad politics: the row over 1325
Why won’t the Security Council endorse the Secretary General’s strategy for enhancing women’s role in matters of...
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Published in: 50.50SCR 1325: just words on a piece of paper
"SCR 1325 is a tool, and the utility of a tool depends on how it is perceived and how activists employ it. So we...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of peace: SCR 1325 at 10
As the 10th anniversary of SCR 1325 approaches and the debates heat up, it is with dual and conflicting senses of...
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Published in: 50.50UK election outcome: lessons for peacebuilding
Inclusive democracy is a key constituent of positive peace. Does the surprise coalition government in Britain have...
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Published in: 50.50Listening to our conscience
A new anthology of women conscientious objectors reveals the extent to which rejection to military service is part...
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Published in: 50.50Implementing SCR 1325: lessons from Israel
The attempt to implement Security Council Resolution 1325 after the failure of the Oslo Peace Process revealed a...
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Published in: 50.50Getting to peace: what kind of movement?
Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart
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Published in: 50.50Burma may save its tigers and not its women
Cora Weiss reports on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma - an overwhelming day of stories...
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