Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies (DHP D232)
FLETCHER SCHOOL
Fall 2013
Instructor:
Dyan Mazurana
Friedman School of Nutrition
617-627-3203
This course examines situations of armed conflict and complex emergencies and the international and national humanitarian, human rights and military responses to these situations from a gender perspective and highlights the policy and program implications that this perspective presents. Topics covered include gender analyses of current trends in armed conflict and terrorism; gender analyses of the links among war economies, globalization and armed conflict; the manipulation of gender roles to fuel war and violence; sexual and gender-based violations; women’s rights in international humanitarian and human rights law during armed conflict; gender and reparations for grave violations of human rights; gender and peacekeeping operations; gender and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration; and gender and peacebuilding. (Monday and Wednesday: 9:40-10:55 a.m.)
