Dubravka Žarkov

Dubravka Žarkov

Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict and Development, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

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Dubravka Žarkov is Associate Professor Emerita of Gender, Conflict and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Her fields of expertise are gender and its intersections with sexuality, ethnicity and religion; violent conflict, war and militarism, including gender based sexual violence and communalism; and visual and textual representations of war, violence, and soldiering. She also works on masculinity and sexual violence in wars against men. Among her publications are: Conflict, Peace, Security and Development: Theories and Methodologies (with Helen Hintjens, 2015); Narratives of Justice in and out of the Courtroom: Former Yugoslavia and Beyond (with Marlies Glasius, 2014); Gender, Violent Conflict, and Development (2008); The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (2007); and The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping (with Cynthia Cockburn, 2002). One of her most recent articles is on faith and feminism.

Working Group Affiliation

Religion and the Global Reframing of Gender Violence