Female Fighters: Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 2110
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- ISBN
- 9780231192996
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - International relations and conflict
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This work is among the first systematic quantitative studies of female fighters in rebel groups. The analyses of the recruitment and impact of female rebels present notable intellectual scope. The rigorous analysis relies on information on the presence, prevalence, and roles of female combatants in more than 250 contemporary rebel movements. The extensive academic investment includes the creation of the novel dataset. It involved a data collection effort spanning 7 years that required locating, cataloguing, and hand-coding thousands of unique publicly available documents. The work entails a comprehensive analysis and presents the most expansive datasets on female combatants to date.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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