POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Political Opportunity, Arena Motorsport, United Nations General Assembly

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Brutal effects on men, women, and children, as well as on public infrastructure gender lens absolutely essential, because rape and other forms of sexual violence are used as tools of war and genocide. Armed conflict can also provide opportunities for change: conflict can produce conditions in which both representation and power grow. Focus on developing countries, where conflict has been a factor in rapid: particularly conducive conditions following large-scale internal armed conflict (civil wars - include wars of independence, ethnic conflict, and rev. wars) growth in women"s rep. Women"s legislative representation across africa increased > than. Women"s average levels of representation in south america > than in. Broadly, armed conflict can alter supply of and demand for women in politics. Three overarching factors: equals their % of the population: structural factors, cultural / ideological factors, political factors. Armed conflict can increase supply of women candidates.