While there has been an impressive groundswell of attention to sexual
and gender-based violence in conflict research and in international
advocacy, there has been little systematic analysis of how
organizational power structures and local contexts inform the nature and
dynamics of such violence. WAPPP Fellow, Zoe Marks, examines the
intersecting dynamics of power and gender in armed groups in Africa by
using her extensive research conducted on the Revolutionary United Front
(RUF) in Sierra Leone. Her study analyzes how context and power affect
the dynamics of sexual and gender-based violence by looking at when and
how women obtain power in armed groups and what their power tells us
about the politics of violence. Speaker: Zoe Marks, WAPPP Fellow, 2014; Chancellor's Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh