Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace. Through an examin

This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Draw

What roles can women from marginalized communities play in conflict, peace-making and democratization? Which factors lie behind their involvement in armed confl

The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped and many t

Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivat