ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides clear and verifiable criteria for honor related violence. It shows that dishonor is equal to a situation of being morally distrusted and, hence stigmatization, ostracism and rejection. Communities or societies (or ‘cultures’) in which only women can cast a conduct stigma by association on men, not onwomen, or in which men cannot cast a stigma by association on women of their affiliation group do not exist. In the Middle East and adjacent areas large segments of the population are stricken by wars, oppression, poverty and illiteracy. While more men than women are victims of war and violence, there is no doubt that the access women and girls have to resources such as schooling, finances and justice, in some regions, is worse than for men.
