Natural Resources and Gender in Conflict Settings
Publisher: Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Author(s): Holly Dunn and Richard Matthew
Date: 2015
Topics: Gender, Livelihoods, Programming
Over the past fifty years, analyses of world affairs have been steadily enriched by thinking through the core issues of justice and ethics, trade and development, and violent conflict and peace from the perspectives of gender and the environment. In large measure, these perspectives have developed independently of each other, accruing their own experts, specialized vocabularies, and research programs, and hence generating their own particular insights and recommendations. Our experiences, working in the field in conflict zones in Africa on issues related to gender and the environment respectively, suggest there might be considerable value in encouraging more dialogue and collaboration between these perspectives. Here we use violent conflict as an entry point for this dialogue.