Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: women speak out about conflict

While the impacts of armed conflict the world over have a shocking familiarity – death, disability, rape, displacement, family separation and economic destruction – women’s experiences are not uniform. These testimonies reveal the views and experiences of women as fighters, participants, refugees, victims caught between warring factions, organisers for peace and rehabilitation, carers, and mothers, relatives and partners of the dead and disappeared. Women from four continents speak of how they have dealt with the psychological and physical damage of war, and with economic survival.