The Contribution of Women to Peace and Reconciliation

� What arguments did the belligerent parties use to legitimize their
escalation of violence?
� Which role did the media play?
Course of the conflict/war:
� How and when did the international community/ the UN react to
the out break of violence?
� Were the warring parties supported with weapons/money from
abroad?
� How was the civilian population involved in the conflict/war? What
was the situation of women and children, participation of teenagers
in acts of war, what was the context of argumentation used by the
participants to legitimize their causes?
� What pressure/ violence did the warring parties exert upon the
civilian population? Violence/rape of women and children?
� Which resistance movements were formed?
� What were the decisive events for the escalation of processes
of violence?
� When and where in the course of the conflict/war were there factors
which made pacification seem possible? Why couldn’t these factors
be used?
� What role did the UN play in the conflict, e.g., via peace-keeping
forces? What effect did the presence of these troops have upon the
warring parties involved? Or the other way round: what effect did
the absence of the UN in the conflict have?
Resistance to the war:
� Which resistance movements existed?
� How did resistance movements behave towards the civilian
population?
� Which civilian forces were there which opposed the violence?
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