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This project will cover not only sexual violence in conflict but also other forms of violence against women, such as the endemic nature of domestic violence or economic violence, or the ways in which violations of socio-economic rights in ‘peace’ heighten in armed conflict and situate women in conjunctures of vulnerability to gender-based violence.Ī political economy analysis compels us to understand how the multiple crises generated by economic globalization and development, resultant macro-economic policies, trade liberalization, economic de-regulation and the financial and climate crises, and militarization, pose new challenges. The link between the causes of conflict and sexual violence need to be discussed in the context of structural inequalities mediated by patriarchy at the level of the household or the community, and in national and global political economies during or in the aftermath of conflict. While there have been studies of the causes and consequences of such violence on the lives of women, the gendered analysis of the political economy of conflict and the ways in which political, economic, social and ideological processes intersect to impact and shape the gendered impact of conflict-related gender-based violence against women has received less attention.

This includes specifically the nature and impact of the armed conflict related gender-based violence against women. The impact of armed conflict and violence on gender relations, gender equality and social justice is a critical concern. We decided to look at armed conflict and gender based violence as political violence with a range of political and economic dimensions “connected to both private patriarchy and the differential gender impacts of economic globalisation.” We thought such an analysis can potentially further illuminate the dynamics of gender and social relations within war-torn and conflict affected polities. The research will focus on the political economy of violence/terror (with special reference to the violence of armed conflict and war) and gender based violence against women (with special reference to sexual violence).

This article is published in the DAWN Informs June 2016 Edition.ÂĭAWN is currently engaged in a research project to map the political economy of conflict and gender based violence. Kumudini Samuel is a member of DAWN’s Executive Committee and is on DAWN’s Political Restructuring and Social Transformation (PRST) team.