Four Case Studies of Women's Peacebuilding Experiences

Friday, January 1, 1999
Author: 
Naamat Issa, Carmel Roulston, Linda Ben Zvi, Kek Galabru
Africa
Europe
Asia
Eastern Africa
Western Europe
South Eastern Asia
Cambodia

Conflicts have psychological, physical and material impacts on the lives of women. For many women, seeing their children sometimes forcefully conscripted into the army by the government, and subsequently perish or come back as handicapped invalids, is a shocking experience. This has happened in my country during the Ethiopia-Somalia war in the 1980s and during the Ethiopian wars against the liberation fronts, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF), the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).

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