Theories of war / Laura Sjoberg -- From women and war to gender and conflict : feminist trajectories / Dubravka Zarkov -- The silences in the rules that regulate women during times of armed conflict / Judith Gardam -- How should we explain the recurrence of violent conflict, and what might gender have to do with it? / Judy El-Bushra -- The gendered nexus between conflict and citizenship in historical perspective / Jo Butterfield and Elizabeth Heineman -- Violent conflict and changes in gender economic roles : implications for post-conflict economic recovery / Patricia Justino -- Victims who are men / Chris Dolan -- Women, peace and security : a critical analysis of the Security Council's vision / Dianne Otto -- Participation and protection : Security Council dynamics, bureaucratic politics, and the evolution of the women, peace and security agenda / Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins -- A genealogy of the centrality of sexual violence to gender and conflict / Karen Engle -- 1325 + 17 = Reflections on the women, peace and security agenda / Kimberly Theidon -- Complemenentarity and convergence? Women, peace and the counterterrorism agenda / Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Alison Davidian -- Convergence Between CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325 : unlocking the potential of CEDAW as an important accountability tool for the women, peace and Security agenda / Pramilla Patten -- Indicators and benchmarks / Pablo Castillo-Diaz and Hanny Cueva-Beteta -- Humanitarian intervention and gender dynamics / Gina Heathcote -- (Re)Considering gender jurisprudence / Patricia Viseur Sellers -- Complementarity as a catalyst for gender justice in national prosecutions / Amrita Kapur -- Forced marriage during conflict and mass atrocity / Valerie Oosterveld -- Advancing justice and making amends through reparations : legal and operational considerations / Kristin Kalla -- Colonialism / Amina Mama -- Conflict, displacement and refugees / Lucy Hovil -- Gender and forms of conflict; the moral hazards of dating the Security Council / Vasuki Nesiah -- The marital rape of girls and women in antiquity and modernity / Kathy L. Gaca -- "Mind the gap" : measuring and understanding gendered conflict experiences / Amelia Hoover Green -- Intersectionality : working in conflict / Elish Rooney -- Agency and gender norms in war economies / Patti Petesch -- Risk and resilience : the physical and mental health of female civilians during war / Lauren C. Ng and Theresa S. Betancourt -- The gender implications of small arms and light weapons in conflict situations / Barbara Frey -- Unmanned weapons : looking for the gender dimension / Christof Heyns and Tess Borden -- Gender and peacekeeping / Sabrina M. Karim and Marsha Henry -- Peacekeeping, human trafficking, and sexual abuse and exploitation / Martina Vandenberg -- Women, peace negotiations and peace agreements : opportunities and challenges / Christine Bell -- Women's organizations and peace initiatives / Aili Mari Tripp -- Gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration : reviewing and advancing the field / Dyan Mazurana, Roxanne Krystalli and Anton Baaré -- Decolonial feminism, gender and transitional justice in Latin America / Pascha Bueno-Hansen -- Gender and governance in post-conflict and democratizing settings / Lisa Kindervater and Sheila Meintjes -- Who defines the red lines? The prospects for safeguarding women's rights and securing their future in post-transition Afghanistan / Sari Kouvo and Corey Levine -- "That's not my daughter" : the paradoxes of documenting Jihadist mass rape in 1990's Algeria and beyond / Karima Bennoune -- Consequences of conflict related sexual violence on post-conflict society : case study reparations in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Lejla Hadzimesic -- Colombia : gender and land restitution / Donny Meertens -- Knowing masculinities in armed conflict : reflections from research in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern -- Northern Ireland : the significance of a bottom-up women's movement in a politically contested society / Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray -- Gendered suffering and the eviction of the native : the politics of birth in occupied East Jerusalem / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- Rwanda : women's political participation in post-conflict state-building / Doris Buss and Jerusa Ali -- Sri Lanka : the impact of militarization on women / Ambika Satkunanathan.

"Traditionally, scholars of war and conflict have focused on men's experiences. Men comprised the armies, and men suffered the most casualties in formal conflicts. In short, gender was rarely considered at all. Yet with the onset of total war in the twentieth century, such a rigidly gendered approach no longer made sense, if it ever did. In virtually every major conflict since the onset of World War II, women suffered enormously. In recent times, scholars of war and conflict have paid far more attention to the role of women in conflict, both as civilians and -occasionally--as participants. But this is not to say that the study of gender and conflict is simply about women. Gender is a two-way street, and the best work on the topic has been cognizant of men, women, and the interactions between men and women. In The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, Naomi Cahn, Fionnuala Ni Aoilain, and Dina Haynes focus on the multidimensionality of gender in conflict, yet they also prioritize the experience of women given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences.Operating from this basic intellectual foundation, the editors have arranged the book into seven core sections: the theoretical foundations of the role of gender in violent conflicts; the sources for studying contemporary conflict; the conflicts themselves; the post-conflict process; institutions and actors; the challenges presented by the evolving nature of war; and, finally, a substantial set of case studies from across the globe. Genuinely comprehensive, this volume will not only serve as an authoritative overview of this massive topic, it will set the research agenda for years to come"--