Four Case Studies of Women's Peacebuilding Experiences

Conflicts have psychological, physical and material impacts on the lives of women. For many women, seeing their children sometimes forcefully conscripted into the army by the government, and subsequently perish or come back as handicapped invalids, is a shocking experience. This has happened in my country during the Ethiopia-Somalia war in the 1980s and during the Ethiopian wars against the liberation fronts, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF), the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).