Monday, August 16, 2010

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 92, no. 877, March 2010) is out. The theme is "Women." Contents include:
  • Interview with Mary Robinson
  • Irène Herrmann & Daniel Palmieri, Between Amazons and Sabines: a historical approach to women and war
  • Helen Durham & Katie O'Byrne, The dialogue of difference: gender perspectives on international humanitarian law
  • Laura Sjoberg, Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative
  • Nicole Hogg, Women's participation in the Rwandan genocide: mothers or monsters?
  • Medina Haeri & Nadine Puechguirbal, From helplessness to agency: examining the plurality of women's experiences in armed conflict
  • Julie Ashdown & Mel James, Women in detention
  • Laura J. Shepherd, Women, armed conflict and language – Gender, violence and discourse
  • Carolyn Nordstrom, Women, economy, war
  • Evelyne Josse, ‘They came with two guns’: the consequences of sexual violence for the mental health of women in armed conflicts
  • Alain-Guy Tachou-Sipowo, The Security Council on women in war: between peacebuilding and humanitarian protection
  • Amy Barrow, UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820: constructing gender in armed conflict and international humanitarian law
  • Samantha T. Godec, Between rhetoric and reality: exploring the impact of military humanitarian intervention upon sexual violence – post-conflict sex trafficking in Kosovo
  • Sandesh Sivakumaran, Lost in translation: UN responses to sexual violence against men and boys in situations of armed conflict