Learning from silences

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Catia Confortini, Natália Maria Félix de Souza, Shir Daphna-Tekoah, and Brooke Ackerly for their constructive comments.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Ayelet Harel-Shalev is an Associate Professor in the Conflict Management and Resolution Program and the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is the author of The Challenge of Democracy: Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel (2013) and the co-author, with Shir Daphna-Tekoah, of Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies (2020). Her recent publications include “Gendering Conflict Analysis: The Case of Minority Women and Muslim Women’s Status in India” (2017), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and “A Room of One’s Own (?) in the Battlespace: Women Soldiers in War Rooms” (2018), published in Critical Military Studies. Her academic interests include feminist IR, women combatants, ethnic conflicts and democracy, minority rights, and women and politics.

Notes

1 For additional examples of the I Poem analysis, see Levi-Hazan and Harel-Shalev (2019).