Violence Against Women in Peace and War

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Violence Against Women in Peace and War is written by Maria Holt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1498598862 (ISBN 10) and 9781498598866 (ISBN 13).

Violence Against Women in Peace and War: Cases from the Middle East explores violence against women in the Middle East. Through a narrative research approach, Maria Holt compares a range of settings and experiences, arguing that (1) violence against women tends to increase during periods of conflict; (2) such practices are legitimized by an already existing environment in which violence against women is tolerated; (3) women are building strategies, both at local and regional levels, to combat and eliminate violence, thus enabling them to play a more constructive role in processes of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction; and (4) the greater the commitment by public authorities to creating sound local frameworks to address violence against women the stronger will be Arab women’s ability to resist conflict.