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Gender Voice And Correlations With Peace+, Terry M. Dworkin, Cindy A. Schipani
Gender Voice And Correlations With Peace+, Terry M. Dworkin, Cindy A. Schipani
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The statistics regarding violence in today's society are staggering. A newly released study published by the World Health Organization, making headlines in the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 3, 2002), reports that "Violence Took 1.6 Million Lives in 2000." This statistic includes only the data obtained from the 70 countries that report such statistics to the World Health Organization, it does not include reports from many other countries where violence is also high, such as Burundi, Rwanda, Iraq, Liberia and Afghanistan.
This Article seeks to address some of these issues of violence by considering issues of gender. The Authors pose the …