This dissertation explores the impact of conflict settlement processes on women's access to rights and resources in two accommodative (South Africa, Northern Ireland) and two separatist (Croatia, Eritrea) conflict settlement processes. It hypothesizes that accommodative conflict settlement process will limit women's access to rights and resources and that separatist settlement process will expand women's access to rights and resources, and that the manner in which a conflict is settled will determine the nature of the outcome of the conflict for women.
The findings of this research suggest that it is the changing structure of the identity groups participating in the conflict that will determine whether women's access to rights and resources will expand or contract after the settlement of the conflict. This dissertation was supported by a Peace Scholar award from the United States Institute of Peace. The views expressed in this dissertation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute of Peace.