Women as agents of ethnic reconciliation? Women's NGOs and international intervention in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-33

  Helms, Elissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; GENDER ROLE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; WAR; WOMENS STATUS;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA;

EID: 0037284141     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(02)00352-7     Document Type: Article

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