The Beijing Plus Five forum as well as the Women Building Peace campaign spear-
headed by International Alert have brought the issue of women in armed conflict to
the centre stage. This discussion addresses the changing character of conflict and
the nature of conflict studies in international relations and the question of gender
therein. It outlines some broad conceptual milestones or recognisable and shared
processes of engendering research in the area of conflict analysis and seeks to under
stand and analyse the key characteristics of gender-aware analyses in the context of
the South Asian region.
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