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SILVA, Vera. Women in Ruanda’s armed conflict. Ex aequo [online]. 2011, n.24, pp.93-104. ISSN 0874-5560.

This article analyses the Ruanda´s conflict, from the beginning until the genocide in 1994 and post-genocide period, inquiring about women’s experiences and practices in this armed conflict context. The article aims to describe the main causes of the ethnicization of the political power and of the State control’s struggle between Hutu and Tutsi elites. This has led to a conflict that seems never end and that has already caused thousands of deaths as well as refugees and displaced people. Thereby, this article aims to identify specific women’s issues, either in the process of ethnic identities formation, either in the Ruanda’s armed conflict, either in the limited interpretations social sciences make about women in armed conflicts.

Palabras clave : women; ethnicity; armed conflict; genocide; refugees and displaced people.

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