2009
DOI: 10.1080/13600810903108321
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The Impact of Violent Conflicts on Households: What Do We Know and What Should We Know about War Widows?

Abstract: This paper analyses how mass violent conflict and the legacy of conflict affect households in developing countries. It does so by pointing out how violent conflict impairs a household's core functions, its boundaries, its choice of coping strategies and its well-being. The paper contributes to the literature on the economics of conflict, reconstruction and vulnerability in three ways. First, it addresses explicitly the level of analysis in the context of conflict by contrasting strengths and weaknesses of a un… Show more

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“…For instance, there are studies that show that emergencies cause changes to household employment status, and there are studies that show changes in employment status increase the risk of violence, but there are no studies that have evaluated the full causal pathway from emergency to change in employment status to violence against children (Brück & Schindler, 2009;Krishnan et al, 2010). Without this type of longitudinal follow-up in two exchangeable populations with varying levels of emergency exposure, it is impossible to estimate the isolated effects of the humanitarian emergency, rather than the general effects of other economic fluctuations in society.…”
Section: Evidencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For instance, there are studies that show that emergencies cause changes to household employment status, and there are studies that show changes in employment status increase the risk of violence, but there are no studies that have evaluated the full causal pathway from emergency to change in employment status to violence against children (Brück & Schindler, 2009;Krishnan et al, 2010). Without this type of longitudinal follow-up in two exchangeable populations with varying levels of emergency exposure, it is impossible to estimate the isolated effects of the humanitarian emergency, rather than the general effects of other economic fluctuations in society.…”
Section: Evidencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Household composition is regularly altered, especially as able-bodied men join the armed forces, migrate or die, leaving behind disproportionate numbers of women, children and elderly (Brück & Schindler, 2009;Ezeoha, 2015;Hill, 2004). Households may also absorb extended relatives or neighbors, including children who have been separated from their primary caregiver as a result of the emergency .…”
Section: Relationship Between Humanitarian Emergencies and Violence Amentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is little empirical evidence on the economic status of these war widows, but the little existing evidence suggests that widows and the households that many of them head are especially vulnerable to the consequences of violent conflict. Brück and Schindler (2009) noted the need to empirically study the changes that war widowhood brings to women and households, including the formation of female-headed households and subfamilies when war widows and their children take refuge in larger, maleheaded households. These authors specifically examined the case of widows in the Rwandan genocide.…”
Section: Widowhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is evidence that ongoing or recent violent conflict may constrain the ability to engage in gainful income generating activities (Justino, ; Justino, ; Brück and Schindler, ). Violent conflict may affect the role of labour in production through distortion of the labour market or by altering individual skills and abilities (Keen, ).…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%