ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which the institutionalisation of Provisional republicanism during conflict transition impacted upon the political struggles of republican women, and finds that the shoe-horning of political activism into elite, male-dominated peace talks, coupled with the zealous pursuit of electoral politics, squeezed many of the political spaces opened by women through the conflict years. Despite the prevailing calls within conventional approaches for women’s inclusion within both institutional peace talks and the sphere of state-centric politics, the chapter suggests that the institutionalisation of political struggle can prove to be detrimental to the post-war lives of former combatant women.
