Abstract

This chapter serves to introduce this interdisciplinary work that brings Christian feminist theologies into dialogue to analyze the complex ethical, geopolitical, social and theological issues involved in the militarization of girls and women and gender-based violence. The author confronts privileged detachment and presents some ways that feminist theory and epistemology have conceived power and the role of power in resisting sexual violence. It elaborates on how the authors in this volume take on specific aspects of the issue to point out what could provide a way forward in understanding and dismantling forms of gender injustice. It introduces discussion of attempts toward rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers and efforts to find new approaches to preventing sexual violence in conflict that focus on preventing the use of children as perpetrators and recipients of this violence.