> Les numéros > Scumgrrrls N°16 - Automne / Fall 2009

Possibilities & Challenges of a State of Exception

Sub-themes of contemporary crisis management and peace- and state-building discourses are the “gender and conflict” and “women and peace” discourses. Since the gender boom of the 1990s, there has been a steady growth of research and development of toolboxes addressing gendered experiences ofwar, gender-based violations during conflict and women’s contributions to peace processes.