Gender and Conflict Resolution: Toward a Theoretical Framework

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1990

Authors

Stockard, Jean

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University of Oregon

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical framework to organize disparate findings regarding women and conflict resolution. The framework accepts basic premises of theorists who emphasize gender differences and those who emphasize similarities by seeing these arguments as reflecting different levels of analysis. The framework stresses the importance of viewing conflict as an on-going process and male power as a reality that infuses this process and each level of analysis. Examples of how this framework can explain the literature are given, and epistemological issues underlying work in the area are discussed. The paper ends by calling for a transformation in research on gender and conflict resolution to counteract a masculine bias in the field.

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an unpublished paper, 41 pages

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conflict resolution, gender, gender-differentiated process, feminist theory, gender roles

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