The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls: the Case of Northern Conflict in Weldiya Town
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The thesis argues that the impact of armed conflict on women and girls:the caseof Northern conflict in Woldiyatown.The study employed a qualitative research approach and also explanatory and case study research design by using primary source of data.Most of the African country faces different kinds of armed conflict and it is a political conflict where use of armed force by two parties and it has numerous impacts on the economic, political and social condition of the country. The country Ethiopia has been experienced a civil war in November 2020-2022. The war is being fought between the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and the Tigray People‟s Liberation Front (TPLF) but the Amharan regional force (fano) and militia join the conflict on the side of Ethiopian government (GoE). The northern conflict touches the Tigray, Amhara and Afar region. itaffects social, political and economic condition of the regions and there was a loss of human life, destruction of property and infrastructures such as road, hospital, school, electricity, telecommunication and etc. and there was high internal displacement and risk of famine are among the most mentioned.This thesis in particular focuses on how the conflicts influence the women and girls andtry to identify the sexual and gender-based violence in the conflict and also examine the support of the community and local government for the women and girls who are affected in the conflict and it alsoassess why gender-based violence used as weapon of war in Northern conflict. Gender based violence is one the serious impact of conflict,it affects both the women and men‟s but the women and girls particularly vulnerable to almost all forms of violence such as rape, torture, mass rape, forced pregnancy, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and etc. those gender-based violence leads to different kinds of health problems, sexual transmitted diseases, mental and physical problems, loss of livelihood they also neglected from different social interaction. During the war time those gender-based violence have been use as a weapon of war and the women and girls have been the prime target of armed conflict and suffered its effect.