Female Ex-combatants and Political Militancy in Nepal and Colombia: Bodies, Spaces and Emotions

Female ex-combatants from leftist insurgencies tend to be portrayed as victims, expelling them from politics in their return to civil society. This project contests these narratives with a feminist analysis of female ex-guerrilla’s militancy in Nepal and Colombia. Drawing on Critical Peace Studies and Feminist Security Studies, it looks at (1) spatial and temporal aspects of female reintegration (2) their embodied and emotional processes (3) the comparatives dynamics of their political militancy (4) and possible policy-oriented recommendations from a feminist perspective.