Gender Relation and Conflict: Theories

1 There is a great deal of data concerning various topics on gender and conflict. Explain how theories about the nature of women and intersectionality assist in analyzing and interpreting this data. Within this large assortment of data, one can see patterns or over arching frameworks that clarify the history and prevalence of long standing gender issues. Discuss three such patterns or frame works.
In our time today, the existence of armed conflicts has become an alarming concern given their increase in number and the variation in the forms they begun to take. While one can assert that at first glance, the scope of these conflicts have gone smaller compared to the previous world wars that past generations had to experience, the growing number of armed conflicts around the world today continue to raise significant issues that need to be addressed in a global effort. Usually, these conflicts are being interpreted in light of the larger social setting where they emerge. In these efforts to probe the nature of these conflicts, one usually arrives at glaring findings about the economic and political set-up in the world today. It is often unavoidable to cite the prevalent inequality in terms of the economic prosperity and growth of nations and their respective political clout in the global level. Aside from these pervading societal conditions, other more particular concerns like ethnic differences, local political turmoil and the persistence of several, minority groups and ideological groups also factor themselves in the continued intensification of armed conflicts in the world. The issue of terrorism also hovers within the terrain of pertinence and this is also a major reinforcement of conflicts in several parts of the world.
In line with this, aside from the nature of these conflicts and what factors might be causing them to come about, we need to look at them in terms of their effects, especially the harmful ones. We know that these conflicts do no good to the communities where they take place, the people inhabiting these communities, their resources and their general way of life. More notably, while the detriments of the war do not discriminate anyone and can take their toll from everyone, of whatever color, age, class or gender, these harms are more likely to affect those who have been in the underprivileged sides of binaries. In particular, women who are already mostly discriminated and oppressed by the existing dominant patriarchal system, get to be strongly afflicted in times of war and conflict. While in the time of relative peace women have to deal with certain limitations and expectations thrown by the society and its institutions, these conditions aggravate during the time of war. While in the absence of conflict there exists inequality and tension in the gender relations, this is only further stressed if not degraded by armed conflicts CITATION Bar04 \l 1033 (Barbanti, 2004).
In this paper, I seek to bring to light the issues and...