Agents of War, Agents of Change: A Revised History of Female Combatants in the TPLF

该项目分析了1974年至1991年埃塞俄比亚内战期间妇女参与提格雷人民解放阵线武装叛乱的程度及其冲突后的经历。在此过程中，它将评估埃塞俄比亚和东非更广泛的冲突和叛乱的性别性质。这将是第一次对过渡联邦警察部队中的妇女进行重大的历史分析，并将对了解妇女在非洲冲突和埃塞俄比亚社会以及冲突后重建中的作用作出实质性贡献。官方历史和现有的学术分析忽视或忽视了妇女参与埃塞俄比亚国内冲突的情况，就像在许多其他战争中一样，低估了其影响，认为这是一个关键特征，影响了我们对民粹主义参与社会和政治暴力的理解。目前的估计表明，蒂格拉扬妇女占蒂格雷人阵人数的很大一部分-到1982年，她们占蒂格雷人阵士兵的25-30%-但她们对运动成功的贡献和对运动意识形态目标的承诺迄今被忽视。这个博士项目将联合收割机档案和口述历史的研究与跨学科的性别分析的冲突，恢复的声音和分析的经验，Tigrayan女战士，有助于更广泛的讨论周围的埃塞俄比亚妇女的作用，在他们的国家和社会的形成。

This project analyses the extent of women's involvement in the armed insurgency of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in Ethiopia during the civil war between 1974 and 1991 and their post-conflict experiences. In doing so, it will assess the gendered nature of conflict and insurgency in Ethiopia, and Eastern Africa more broadly. This would deliver the first major historical analysis of women in the TPFL and would make a substantive contribution to knowledge of women's roles in African conflict and in Ethiopian society and post-conflict reconstruction. Official histories and existing academic analysis has marginalized or ignored women's involvement in Ethiopia's civil conflict, as in many other wars, underestimating its impact as a key feature which affects our understanding about populist engagement in social and political violence. Current estimates suggest that Tigrayan women made up a substantial part of the TPFL numbers - they formed 25-30% of TPLF soldiers by 1982 - but their contribution to the movement's success and commitment to its ideological goals have so far been overlooked. This doctoral project will combine archival and oral history research with an interdisciplinary gendered analysis of the conflict to recover the voices and analyse the experiences of Tigrayan female combatants, contributing to wider discussions surrounding Ethiopian women's role in the formation of their state and society.