understanding women's participation in armed rebel groups
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Henshaw, Alexis Leanna
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- politiek, extremisme, politieke stromingen, oorlog en vrede, religie, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups. The book reveals that women are active in over half of all rebel groups sampled and that, while the majority of rebel groups have women serving in support roles away from direct combat, approximately a third of these groups employ women in the conduct of armed attacks, and just over a quarter have women in a leadership capacity.