Dyan Mazurana
Biographic Data
| ID | 1406694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dyan Mazurana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazurana |
| SIGNATURE | MAZURANA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation
Child marriage in armed conflict
Eradicating and addressing child marriage in situations of armed conflict requires that stakeholders increase their attention, knowledge, evidence-based protection measures, and resources in a coordinated fashion. To this end, this article examines what constitutes child marriage within the international legal framework. It then presents a concise analysis of what is known about child marriage in development contexts, before moving on to discuss …
Women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda
Girls and women who bear children owing to wartime sexual violence committed by armed actors face challenges in gaining acceptance on return to their families and societies. This study analyses the lives of women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in Uganda. It draws on a population-based survey of 1,844 households in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions of northern Uganda, as well as on in-depth qualitative interviews condu…
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration, edited by Seema Shekhawat, provides a rich look at the expectations and experiences of women
Disability and recovery from war in northern Uganda
This article explores the prevalence of disabilities resulting from war crimes committed by parties to the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. We compare these individuals and their households with persons in the same geographic area in households with no disabled members. We focus our comparison on livelihoods, education, health care access, food insecurity and wealth, and frame our discussion within the pol…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Research Methods in Conflict Settings: A View from Below
How sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data and gender and generational analyses can improve humanitarian response
Humanitarian aid remains largely driven by anecdote rather than by evidence. The contemporary humanitarian system has significant weaknesses with regard to data collection, analysis, and action at all stages of response to crises involving armed conflict or natural disaster. This paper argues that humanitarian actors can best determine and respond to vulnerabilities and needs if they use sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and gener…
The Role of Spirituality in Humanitarian Crisis Survival and Recovery
This chapter discusses the available knowledge on the relationship between well-being and spirituality, especially during traumatic environmental and humanitarian crises. It studies the evidence on how humanitarian aid agencies become involved with the spiritual lives of their beneficiaries. It also shows how spirituality in some agencies may help determine how and where they provide aid. This chapter concludes with a description of the areas tha…
Using sex and age disaggregated data to improve humanitarian response in emergencies
Drawing on relevant literature, case studies, and in-depth interviews with humanitarian practitioners, this article presents current practices concerning the collection and use of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and generational analyses of SADD within the humanitarian community. Academic research and humanitarian practice amply demonstrate that gender and age differentiation exist in society and that these differentiations are p…
Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda
What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who threaten social stability, as some fear? Existing theory and evidence are both inconclusive and focused on males. New data and a tragic natural quasi-experiment in Uganda allow us to estimate the impacts of war on both genders, and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success. As expected, violence drives social and psycho…
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner. 2004. 225 pp. $49.95.Armed conflict, torture, murder, sexual assault, sexual enslavement, human trafficking and HIV/AIDS—United Nations peacekeepers are sent into conflict-torn countries to help prevent the further spread of these horrors. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan often highlights these brutalities when he publicly calls upon mem…
Girls in fighting forces and groups: Their recruitment, participation, demobilization, and reintegration
The question Where are the girls? is seldom raised in discussions about children or adolescents who are members of fighting forces and groups. This is due in large part to the near exclusive focus on boy soldiers. Consequently, scant attention has been given to girls' active involvement and distinct experiences in these forces and groups, whether as combatants or noncombatants. The purpose of this article is to explicate the presence and experien…
Juana Alicia's Las Lechugueras/The Women Lettuce Workers
Research Article| September 01 2002 Juana Alicia's Las Lechugueras/The Women Lettuce Workers Dyan Mazurana Dyan Mazurana dyan mazurana, Ph.D., is a research scholar and faculty member at the University of Montana, Missoula. She is a 2001–2002 Peace and International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Dr. Mazurana is co-author of the United Nations Secretary-General's study, Women, Girls, Peace and Security.…
A hostile reception: Women's realities of civil political discourse in democracies
Our commentary focuses on feminist insights into concepts of equality, citizenship, democracy, and political discourse and how such a perspective may raise issues and questions not considered by Johnson and Johnson's (this issue) theoretical model for civil political discourse. To illustrate our points, we draw on a number of cases from around the world to highlight some of the obstacles and challenges women face as they try to participate in civ…
Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda
What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who threaten social stability, as some fear? Existing theory and evidence are both inconclusive and focused on males. New data and a tragic natural quasi-experiment in Uganda allow us to estimate the impacts of war on both genders, and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success. As expected, violence drives social and psycho…
Girls in fighting forces and groups: Their recruitment, participation, demobilization, and reintegration
The question Where are the girls? is seldom raised in discussions about children or adolescents who are members of fighting forces and groups. This is due in large part to the near exclusive focus on boy soldiers. Consequently, scant attention has been given to girls' active involvement and distinct experiences in these forces and groups, whether as combatants or noncombatants. The purpose of this article is to explicate the presence and experien…
Women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda
Girls and women who bear children owing to wartime sexual violence committed by armed actors face challenges in gaining acceptance on return to their families and societies. This study analyses the lives of women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in Uganda. It draws on a population-based survey of 1,844 households in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions of northern Uganda, as well as on in-depth qualitative interviews condu…
How sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data and gender and generational analyses can improve humanitarian response
Humanitarian aid remains largely driven by anecdote rather than by evidence. The contemporary humanitarian system has significant weaknesses with regard to data collection, analysis, and action at all stages of response to crises involving armed conflict or natural disaster. This paper argues that humanitarian actors can best determine and respond to vulnerabilities and needs if they use sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and gener…
Child marriage in armed conflict
Eradicating and addressing child marriage in situations of armed conflict requires that stakeholders increase their attention, knowledge, evidence-based protection measures, and resources in a coordinated fashion. To this end, this article examines what constitutes child marriage within the international legal framework. It then presents a concise analysis of what is known about child marriage in development contexts, before moving on to discuss …
Using sex and age disaggregated data to improve humanitarian response in emergencies
Drawing on relevant literature, case studies, and in-depth interviews with humanitarian practitioners, this article presents current practices concerning the collection and use of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and generational analyses of SADD within the humanitarian community. Academic research and humanitarian practice amply demonstrate that gender and age differentiation exist in society and that these differentiations are p…
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner. 2004. 225 pp. $49.95.Armed conflict, torture, murder, sexual assault, sexual enslavement, human trafficking and HIV/AIDS—United Nations peacekeepers are sent into conflict-torn countries to help prevent the further spread of these horrors. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan often highlights these brutalities when he publicly calls upon mem…
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration, edited by Seema Shekhawat, provides a rich look at the expectations and experiences of women
A hostile reception: Women's realities of civil political discourse in democracies
Our commentary focuses on feminist insights into concepts of equality, citizenship, democracy, and political discourse and how such a perspective may raise issues and questions not considered by Johnson and Johnson's (this issue) theoretical model for civil political discourse. To illustrate our points, we draw on a number of cases from around the world to highlight some of the obstacles and challenges women face as they try to participate in civ…
Girls in fighting forces and groups: Their recruitment, participation, demobilization, and reintegration
The question Where are the girls? is seldom raised in discussions about children or adolescents who are members of fighting forces and groups. This is due in large part to the near exclusive focus on boy soldiers. Consequently, scant attention has been given to girls' active involvement and distinct experiences in these forces and groups, whether as combatants or noncombatants. The purpose of this article is to explicate the presence and experien…
Juana Alicia's Las Lechugueras/The Women Lettuce Workers
Research Article| September 01 2002 Juana Alicia's Las Lechugueras/The Women Lettuce Workers Dyan Mazurana Dyan Mazurana dyan mazurana, Ph.D., is a research scholar and faculty member at the University of Montana, Missoula. She is a 2001–2002 Peace and International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Dr. Mazurana is co-author of the United Nations Secretary-General's study, Women, Girls, Peace and Security.…
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis
Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner. 2004. 225 pp. $49.95.Armed conflict, torture, murder, sexual assault, sexual enslavement, human trafficking and HIV/AIDS—United Nations peacekeepers are sent into conflict-torn countries to help prevent the further spread of these horrors. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan often highlights these brutalities when he publicly calls upon mem…
Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda
What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who threaten social stability, as some fear? Existing theory and evidence are both inconclusive and focused on males. New data and a tragic natural quasi-experiment in Uganda allow us to estimate the impacts of war on both genders, and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success. As expected, violence drives social and psycho…
The Role of Spirituality in Humanitarian Crisis Survival and Recovery
This chapter discusses the available knowledge on the relationship between well-being and spirituality, especially during traumatic environmental and humanitarian crises. It studies the evidence on how humanitarian aid agencies become involved with the spiritual lives of their beneficiaries. It also shows how spirituality in some agencies may help determine how and where they provide aid. This chapter concludes with a description of the areas tha…
Using sex and age disaggregated data to improve humanitarian response in emergencies
Drawing on relevant literature, case studies, and in-depth interviews with humanitarian practitioners, this article presents current practices concerning the collection and use of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and generational analyses of SADD within the humanitarian community. Academic research and humanitarian practice amply demonstrate that gender and age differentiation exist in society and that these differentiations are p…
Research Methods in Conflict Settings: A View from Below
How sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data and gender and generational analyses can improve humanitarian response
Humanitarian aid remains largely driven by anecdote rather than by evidence. The contemporary humanitarian system has significant weaknesses with regard to data collection, analysis, and action at all stages of response to crises involving armed conflict or natural disaster. This paper argues that humanitarian actors can best determine and respond to vulnerabilities and needs if they use sex‐ and age‐disaggregated data (SADD) and gender and gener…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Disability and recovery from war in northern Uganda
This article explores the prevalence of disabilities resulting from war crimes committed by parties to the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. We compare these individuals and their households with persons in the same geographic area in households with no disabled members. We focus our comparison on livelihoods, education, health care access, food insecurity and wealth, and frame our discussion within the pol…
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration, edited by Seema Shekhawat, provides a rich look at the expectations and experiences of women
Women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda
Girls and women who bear children owing to wartime sexual violence committed by armed actors face challenges in gaining acceptance on return to their families and societies. This study analyses the lives of women survivors and their children born of wartime sexual violence in Uganda. It draws on a population-based survey of 1,844 households in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions of northern Uganda, as well as on in-depth qualitative interviews condu…
Child marriage in armed conflict
Eradicating and addressing child marriage in situations of armed conflict requires that stakeholders increase their attention, knowledge, evidence-based protection measures, and resources in a coordinated fashion. To this end, this article examines what constitutes child marriage within the international legal framework. It then presents a concise analysis of what is known about child marriage in development contexts, before moving on to discuss …
Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation
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