Minority Women in Deeply Divided Societies
The main aim of this research is to emphasize that gendered aspects of ethnic conflicts and ethnic conflict accommodation are crucial to the understanding of the status of women after the ethnic conflict has supposedly been resolved. In deeply divided societies, one should be aware of the fact that political competition and political violence do not affect all citizens in the same way. Moreover, in addition to the “larger picture” of inter-community conflicts and inter-religious relations; intra-community conflicts are no less important. Within each community, one can trace the winners and the losers of the political accommodation process. Marginalized and weaker sections of each ‘side’ of the conflict might be the real “losers” among the competing sides.