Gender Biases and Armed Conflict:  Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA

Pavelich, Kimberly

Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA

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dc.contributor.advisor	Policzer, Pablo
dc.contributor.advisor	Gregorian, Hrach
dc.contributor.author	Pavelich, Kimberly
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-18T18:30:42Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-15T07:01:44Z
dc.date.issued	2013-01-18
dc.date.submitted	2013	en
dc.description.abstract	Women are actively involved as combatants in many irregular armed forces. This runs counter to a common belief that when involved with an armed group, women are limited to traditional gender roles such as cooking, cleaning, and being a wife. By opposing traditional gender assumptions during conflict, these women are often rejected or stigmatized by their community following their return from the force – indicating that they have failed in their reintegration post conflict. This represents the case for women who have returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. In seeking to explain this outcome for ex-LRA women in comparison to women who did not serve in the LRA, and to men who returned from the force as well, this thesis raises the question: why are women who are returning from the LRA unsuccessful in their reintegration?	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Pavelich, K. (2013). Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26261	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26261
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11023/426
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	African
dc.subject	Military Studies
dc.subject	Women's Studies
dc.subject.classification	Reintegration	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gender	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Uganda	en_US
dc.title	Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA
dc.type	master thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Military and Strategic Studies
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Master of Strategic Studies (MSS)
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