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Syrian Women and the Refugee Crisis: Surviving the Conflict, Building Peace, and Taking New Gender Roles

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  • Yumna Asaf

    (Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002 Aligarh, India)

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Women and men experience conflicts differently. Women, even as non-combatants, suffer a great harm. Wars are gendered, both in causes and consequences. Women are deliberately excluded from formal peace negotiations. Work done for the reconstruction of conflict ridden societies, fail to recognize with women’s realities and needs. Despite that, women have remained influential at the grassroots level in peace-building and rehabilitation. The paper uses the example of Syria, to explore beyond the most prominent perception of women borne out of an armed conflict, i.e., of the ‘victims of war’ and assesses, in how many different ways women have survived the Syrian conflict and have made efforts for peace, informally and formally, challenging the narrative of women as just a group with special needs and requirements. For this purpose, the paper has content analysis of the previous research, data, reports, mainstream news articles, and other relevant information on the topics of housing, food, health, work and financial security, changed roles, isolation, and gender-based violence to understand how women’s role in all these spheres are shaping new narratives for women, peace and security, distinct from the prevalent existing ones.

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  • Yumna Asaf, 2017. "Syrian Women and the Refugee Crisis: Surviving the Conflict, Building Peace, and Taking New Gender Roles," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:6:y:2017:i:3:p:110-:d:112552
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    1. True, Jacqui, 2012. "The Political Economy of Violence against Women," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199755912.
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