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    “We’ll Kill You If You Cry”: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict

    Taylor, Louise. 2003. “We’ll Kill You If You Cry”: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict. New York: Human Rights Watch.

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    Topics: Armed Conflict, Combatants, Male Combatants, Gender, Women, Girls, International Organizations, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Private Military & Security, Militaries, Militias, Non-State Armed Groups, Peacekeeping, Sexual Violence, Rape, SV against Women Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Sierra Leone

  2. Research

    Military Gender Integration and Foreign Policy in the United States: A Feminist International Relations Perspective

    Stachowitsch, Saskia. 2012. “Military Gender Integration and Foreign Policy in the United States: A Feminist International Relations Perspective.” Security Dialogue 43 (4): 305-21.

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    Topics: Combatants, Female Combatants, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Gendered Discourses, Gender Balance, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Private Military & Security, Militaries Regions: Americas, North America Countries: United States of America

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    Women’s Participation in the Military and Security Sphere: Comparing the Public and Private Sectors

    Basu, Soumita, and Maya Eichler. 2011. "Women’s Participation in the Military and Security Sphere: Comparing the Public and Private Sectors." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association Annual Conference ‘Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition’, Montreal, March 16-19.

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    Topics: Combatants, Female Combatants, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Private Military & Security, Militaries, Militarization, Paramilitaries, Violence

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    Clients, Contractors, and the Everyday Masculinities in Global Private Security

    Chisholm, Amanda. 2017. “Clients, Contractors, and the Everyday Masculinities in Global Private Security.” Critical Military Studies 3 (2): 120–41. 

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    Topics: Gender, Men, Masculinity/ies, Gendered Power Relations, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Private Military & Security, Militaries, Militarization, Political Economies, Security Keywords: autoethnography, military, militarization, private military and security companies, masculinities, feminist political economy

  5. Research

    Perspectives on Private Security: The Myth, the Men and the Markets

    Chisholm, Amanda. 2018. “Perspectives on Private Security: The Myth, the Men and the Markets.” In Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender, edited by Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts, 196-210. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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    Topics: Economies, Feminisms, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Private Military & Security, Militaries, Peacekeeping, Political Economies, Security

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