Phoebe Donnelly’s Article on Gender and Strategy Published in Global Society

Phoebe Donnelly’s article, The Interactive Relationship between Gender and Strategy, was published in Global Society in June 2018. The central argument of this article is that gender affects the strategy of non-state armed organisations (NSAOs) and strategic decisions affect gender dynamics inside NSAOs. The article makes a theoretical contribution by constructing a framework to analyse the two-way relationship between gender and strategy that can be applied to different NSAOs. The first part of the framework analyses the gender dynamics in the society where an NSAO is formed. The second component examines the ways in which gender dynamics in that society affect NSAOs’ strategic decisions. The final step involves analysing the new gender order inside an NSAO created by gendered strategic decisions. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda is the central case study used to illustrate the utility of this framework, but I also briefly highlight the relationship between gender and strategy in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador.

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