ABSTRACT
Contemporary gender theory has reinforced the importance of theorising genders and sexualities as context dependent, shifting and plural. The elision of difference within gender and sexual categories, and the retention of elements of traditional gender scripts in policy approaches to gender and sexual inequities in societies emerging from conflict expose what is at stake when gender is brought into analytical view in conflict transformational analysis. Framing identities as multiple and fluid supports an analysis of the institutional structures of conflict transformation, while avoiding the static constitutions of identities that too often characterise policy approaches to gender and sexuality.
