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This #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm going to try and highlight cases of women's active involvement in post-Cold War conflicts. The cases I'm discussing are among those featured in my newly released book Insurgent Women, and my prior book Why Women Rebel (now in paperback).
1a. Starting with the civil conflict in Colombia, which is featured in Insurgent Women. Many people are aware of the extensive participation of women in the FARC, where they were about 1/3 of the demobilizing rebels as of 2017. bbc.com/mundo/noticias…
1b. However, women's engagement in the war is much more complicated. The ELN, with ~2500 rebels per some estimates, has about 25% women in its ranks. Its highest-ranking ♀︎ leader, Comandante Paula, died in 2018 in Havana...
