Women from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Tigray (Ethiopia), Uganda, Somaliland, Liberia, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Lebanon, Bosnia and Croatia speak of the psychological and physical damage of war, and the battle for economic survival. These testimonies reveal many women’s diverse views and experiences.

"The women whose testimonies appear in this book bear witness to the experience of war in our time. Their first-hand accounts provide a perspective on warfare that no other information, however dramatic, can match. The reality is that nearly 50 years after the establishment of the United Nations (UN), with its mission to promote international peace and security, brutal conflicts between and within nations are more widespread than before and - as these women's stories vividly illustrate - it is civilians who now overwhelmingly bear the brunt of the terror and the violence."

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