UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (KORBEL)
Women's Mobilization Within Armed Groups
© AFP | Getty Images
ABOUT
The Josef Korbel Institute at the University of Denver, in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), addresses a critical gap in conflict and peacebuilding data by expanding the Women's Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) dataset. Covering the roles of armed group members and affiliates across conflict, negotiation and post-conflict transitions since 1945, the project combines dataset expansion with qualitative fieldwork and multilingual pilot research in two countries. It will expand data coverage, improve interoperability with post-conflict datasets and complement the related CRAF’d-supported PRIO project, contributing to a more complete evidence base for post-conflict recovery and planning.
OBJECTIVES
With CRAF’d support, the University of Denver is strengthening the evidence base on women’s mobilization in armed groups by expanding and structuring data on women’s wings and post-conflict trajectories. By combining dataset expansion with qualitative insights and a practitioners’ handbook, the project will help stakeholders identify and engage relevant women’s organisations and design more targeted programmes, including in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.
CRAFd funding enabled us to expand the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion Project to evaluate women’s participation in armed movements and affiliated women’s organizations in roughly 700 cases.
Dr. Meredith Maloof Loken
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam