Abstract
The nature and the battle ground of wars have changed in time. According to the common statistics to show how the nature of war has changed 80–90 per cent of the victims of the First World War were from the military, whereas around 90 per cent of the victims of today’s conflicts are civilian. The victims of today’s conflicts are mostly women and children and this is due to the blurred borders between “war front” and “home front” (UNRISD 2005: 210f.). To give just one example: The 2006 attacks of the Israeli Air Force on Lebanon did not distinguish civilian from military areas when bombing the country and it was mostly the civilian population that died or was injured during the conflict (atv, 16 July 2006).
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Kuloglu, C. (2008). Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones. In: Carreiras, H., Kümmel, G. (eds) Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90935-6_10
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