This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the socio-economic consequences of conflict involvement. The first … essay studies the effect of the Operation Iraqi Freedom and the following civil war on schooling outcomes of Iraqi children … in mandatory schooling age. Several conflict measures which vary over geographic regions are proposed to capture …

how discourses on war, peace and conflict have used the politics of gender and the manner in which debates over global … towards women’s rights and security, and Eleanor O’Gorman’s analysis of gender and conflict, I will attempt to discuss … conflict. Finally, I will attempt to draw linkages between MacKinnon’s theory of consciousness-raising and feminist movements …