![]() The causal relationship between powerlessness and violence has been repeated in the resolutions 1820(2008) and 1888(2009). That message, repeated in SCR 1889 (2009), was that the plight of women could only be ameliorated if they were given a voice in all the arenas and decision making processes that affected their lives. Our point of departure was the increasing attention on the consequences of contemporary wars on women and children, including the landmark UNSCR 1325 on “Women, peace and security” which was passed in the year 2000, as well as the three following UN resolutions, 1820(2008), 18,(2009) which in part focused on Gender based violence in war and in part reasserted the main message of resolution 1325. The original purpose of this project was to analyze existing data collections such as the PRIO battle death data and the Uppsala data on armed conflict to see whether they could be disaggregated according to gender and age as well as to causes of death. Contemporary wars are usually fought in regions not unlike those she encountered, with insufficient infrastructures, such as health facilities and procedures for the collection of statistics and data on the war related casualties. ![]() She changed these, and she began collecting reliable statistics on the causes of death and chronic war inflicted damages. ![]() The infrastructure at the hospitals as well as the hygienic conditions were abominable. ![]() When Florence Nightingale in the early 19th century went to the Crimean Peninsula to care for the wounded of that war she discovered to her horror that soldiers more frequently died from the infections gotten at the primitive army hospitals than from combat or their war inflicted wounds. This report is a final follow-up of the PRIO Policy Brief entitled A Gendered Perspective on the Direct and Indirect Causes of Death in War and Armed Conflicts (October 2006) by Patrick Meier in collaboration with Helga Hernes. ![]()
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