Positioning women in conflict studies

• Verfasst von: Karim, Sabrina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hill, Daniel W. Jr. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Positioning women in conflict studies
• Titelzusatz: how women's status affects political violence
• Verf.angabe: Sabrina Karim, Daniel W. Hill, Jr
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775797-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780197757970.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Frau / (s)Gleichstellung / (s)Soziale Situation / (s)Politik
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Politics and Government
• Sach-SW: Politics & government
• K10plus-PPN: 1900814137
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In 'Positioning Women in Conflict Studies', Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., re-evaluate the literature on gender, international politics, and conflict to reveal that the term 'gender equality' is often used to refer to four distinct concepts: women's inclusion, women's rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women's roles. They develop original measures for each of these concepts and examine their impact on inter-state war onset, intra-state conflict onset, state repression/human rights violations, and terrorism. Overall, Karim and Hill demonstrate how the conceptualization and measurement of gender equality and women's status is critical in understanding how to reduce political violence globally.

Abstract

"On March 6, 2023, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (2023) warned that decades of global progress on women's status are "vanishing before our eyes." Speaking to the Commission on the Status of Women in New York, he listed examples of global rollbacks to women and girls' status including the erasure of women from public life in Afghanistan, the backsliding on reproductive health in many countries, and the kidnapping and killing of girls. He suggested that the goal of "gender equality" is at least "300 years away." The Secretary-General is not necessarily exaggerating in his statement. Progress on improving women's status globally has slowed, stalled, or even reversed (England, Levine, and Mishel 2020a; 2020b; Moyer 2023). For one, the Covid-19 global pandemic exacerbated women's conditions around the world. Domestic violence increased, job insecurity for women worsened, access to sexual and reproductive health services declined, women face higher levels of food and water insecurity than men, and girls' enrollment in schools has dropped. Amnesty International's Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, sums up the grim news in this way, "events [in 2021 and 2022] have conspired to crush the rights and dignity of millions of women and girls. The world's crises do not impact equally, let alone fairly. The disproportionate impacts on women's and girls' rights are well-documented yet still neglected, when not ignored outright.""--