ABSTRACT
The idea that violence has neat start and end points exposes the inadequacies of those who seek to engineer a peace that deals only with the ‘exceptional’ violence of war. The gender continuum of violence resists any division between public and private domains, and, moreover, contends that the violence of armed conflict cannot be separated from other expressions of violence Using this framework, and drawing upon the post-war experiences of republican women in the North of Ireland, this chapter argues that the post-conflict moment as experienced by republican women represents not peace and security, but a continuity of gender discrimination, violence, and insecurity.
