Publication: WOMEN IN CONFLICT ZONES

WOMEN IN CONFLICT ZONES

Conflict inflicts suffering on everyone be it man woman, children, nature but women are the worst sufferers in a conflict zone affected particularly by its short- and long-term effects. Gender inequality, lack of economic empowerment, extreme poverty, displacement from their homes, destruction of social networks, cultural taboos, lower status in society, no role in decision making, and the lack of structures to protect them contribute to their sufferings. External violence-rape, molestation, mutilation of women’s bodies, and domestic violence- battering, stalking, marital rape of women significantly aggravates in conflict zones. The structural marginalization of women we witness in conflict zones does not amount to a ‘soft’ issue that we can afford to put off until after we solve the ‘hard’ ones. The hard issues - peace and security, reconciliation and rehabilitation, economic growth and prosperity depend on women as much as on men. Women though victimized play different roles as social actors in the three phases of conflict, that is, before, during and after conflict towards peace building. Women are not mere passive victims of conflict. They experience conflict in diverse ways as victims, survivors, community leaders, mediators and peacemakers.
The edited volumes I&II aim to generate new knowledge and debate on the challenges women face in conflict zones and their journey from victimhood to victor hood in terms of socio-political, cultural, and economic empowerment, resistance, renegotiating identity and spaces, and as peace negotiators. The volumes through new insights to the debate on gender and socio-cultural change in conflict-ridden societies would endeavor to generate awareness about the emerging issues regarding women in conflict, the dynamics of re negotiating their roles in changing situations: their roles as cultural and political activists, providers, members of social movements, leaders, peace builders, writers etc.
Papers are invited on any of the following sub-themes:
• Women conflict and family
• Women sexual violence and rape
• Women conflict and community
• Women conflict and health
• Women conflict and human rights
• Women conflict and public history
• Women conflict and identity
• Women politics and law
• Women  conflict and  sexuality
• Women protest and change
• Women and narratives
• Women migration and displacement
• Women conflict and writings
• Women politics and governance in conflict zones
• Women conflict and reconciliation
• Women as peace negotiators
• Women conflict and spiritual healing
• Women and economic empowerment

Kindly sent your confirmation along with an abstract of 150-300 words and your resume(100 words) before 31/08/2014.

YOU ARE REQUESTED TO SEND YOUR ORIGINAL PAPER IN ENGLISH AS PER THE FORMAT FOR THE BOOK TO THE EDITORS
Dr. Jasbir Singh                                                               Dr. Anupama Vohra
Professor of Economics                                                    Associate Professor of English      
University of Jammu, Jammu                                          DDE, University of Jammu, Jammu
India                                                                                 India
EMAIL: drjbsingh@yahoo.com                                       EMAIL: vohranu@yahoo.com
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Journal article 
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• N/John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639.
• B/Smith, John Maynard. “The Origin of Altruism.” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.

Article in an online journal 
• N/Mark A. Hlatky et al., "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial,"
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Popular magazine article 
• N/Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker,” New Yorker, May 6, 2002, 84.
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Newspaper article 
• N/William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.
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Book review 
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Thesis or dissertation 
• N/M. Amundin, “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena” (PhD diss., Stockholm University, 1991), 22–29, 35.
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Paper presented at a meeting or conference 
• N/Brian Doyle, “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59” (paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, June 19–22, 2002).
• B/Doyle, Brian. “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, June 19–22, 2002.

Web site 
• N/Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees, “Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach,” Evanston Public Library, http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html.
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