and gender-based violence in conflict research and in international

advocacy, there has been little systematic analysis of how

organizational power structures and local contexts inform the nature and

dynamics of such violence. WAPPP Fellow, Zoe Marks, examines the

intersecting dynamics of power and gender in armed groups in Africa by

using her extensive research conducted on the Revolutionary United Front

(RUF) in Sierra Leone. Her study analyzes how context and power affect

the dynamics of sexual and gender-based violence by looking at when and

how women obtain power in armed groups and what their power tells us

about the politics of violence. Speaker: Zoe Marks, WAPPP Fellow, 2014; Chancellor's Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh