International Security Conflict and Gender

This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS. Since the turn of the century international policy agenda on security have focused on HIV/AIDS only as a concern for national and international security ignoring peopleâs particular experiences vulnerabilities and needs in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Developing a gender-based framework for HIV/AIDS-conflict analysis this book draws on research conducted in Burundi to understand the implications of post-conflict demobilization and reintegration policies on women and men and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. By centring the argument on personal reflections this work provides a critical alternative method to engage with conflict and HIV/AIDS and a much richer understanding of the relationship between the two. International Security Conflict and Gender will be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare politics security and governance. . Language: English