The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict

• Acknowledgments


• Editors and Contributors Biographies


• Forewords


• Introduction


• I. Background and Context


• 1. Theories of War


• Laura Sjoberg


• 2. From Women and War to Gender and Conflict? Feminist Trajectories


• Dubravka Zarkov


• 3. The Silences in the Rules that Regulate Women during Times of Armed Conflict


• Judith Gardam


• 4. How Should we Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to do with it?


• Judy El-Bushra


• 5. The Gendered Nexus Between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective


• Jo Butterfield and Elizabeth Heineman


• 6. Violent Conflict and Changes in Gender Economic Roles: Implications for Post-Conflict Economic Recovery


• Patricia Justino


• 7. Men As Victims


• Chris Dolan


• II. The Security Council's WPS Agenda/Contemporary Survey


• 8. Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Analysis of the Security Council's Vision


• Dianne Otto


• 9. Participation and Protection: Security Council Dynamics, Bureaucratic Politics and the Evolution of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda


• Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins


• 10. A Critical Genealogy of the Centrality of Sexual Violence to Gender and Conflict


• Karen Engle


• 11. 1325 +15 = Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda


• Kimberly Theidon


• 12. Complemenentarity and Convergence? Women, Peace and Security and the Counterterrorism Agenda


• Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Alison Davidian


• 13. Convergence Between CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325: Unlocking the Potential of CEDAW as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda


• Pramilla Patten


• 14. Indicators and Benchmarks

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin holds the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and is concurrently Professor of Law & Associate Director at Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (Belfast). Her book Law in Times of Crisis with Oren Gross (CUP 2006) was awarded ASIL's Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship (2007). She is co-author of On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post Conflict Process with Naomi Chan and Dina Haynes (OUP 2011). Ní Aoláin was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making (2003). She has served as Expert to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (2015), and Consultant to UN Women and OHCHR on a Study on Reparations for Conflict Related Sexual Violence (2013). She was nominated twice by the Irish Government as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2004 & 2007).

Naomi Cahn is the Harold H. Greene Professor at George Washington University Law School. Her research and writing focus on gender issues in both domestic and international law. She first co-taught a "Women and International Law" course in 1992, at Georgetown University Law Center. With Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Dina Francesca Haynes, she is the co-author of On the Frontlines (OUP 2011). She has written or co-written numerous other books and articles, including Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family (OUP 2014)(with Professor June Carbone).

Dina Francesca Haynes is Professor of Law at New England Law, Boston, where she teaches courses related to migration, refugees and human rights, as well as human trafficking and constitutional law. She has published numerous books, chapters and articles, including Deconstructing the Reconstruction: Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Postwar BiH (Ashgate 2008), and On the Frontlines (OUP 2011) with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Naomi Cahn.