Ebook {Epub PDF} War Is Not Over When Its Over: Women and the Consequences of Conflict by Ann Jones

 · Dramatic and compelling, animated by the voices of unimaginably brave and resourceful women, War Is Not Over When It’s Over shines a powerful light on the lives of people too long cast in shadow. “Harrowing and important. Ann Jones, writer and photographer, is the author of seven previous books, including War Is Not Over When It's Over, Kabul in Winter, Women Who Kill, and Next Time She'll Be Dead. Since 9/11, Jones has worked with women in conflict and post-conflict zones, principally Afghanistan, and .  · And along with peace often comes worsening violence against women, both domestic and sexual. Dramatic and compelling, animated by the voices of brave and resourceful women, War Is Not Over When It's Over shines a powerful light on a phenomenon that has long been cast in shadow.5/5(1).

Taliban Takeover. The Taliban take over Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies. On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi (Leaving Afghanistan, Taliban Country. While Iranian women emphasized the physical and mental consequences of conflict, Indian women reported the development of chronic diseases, tension, and mental stress. Furthermore, a group of Japanese women referred to health and mental/psychological problems as the outcomes of stress (15, 30). Not since the HIV/AIDS epidemic has the United States faced as devastating and lethal a health problem as the current crisis of opioid misuse and overdose and opioid use disorder (OUD). Current national trends indicate that each year more people die of overdoses—the majority of which involve opioid drugs—than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, the Korean War, or any armed conflict.

on the U.S. economy over the last seventy years during major periods of conflict. It specifically examines five distinct periods: World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Iraq and the Afghanistan Wars. The paper does not debate the moral, political, or philosophical justifications for these. Ann Jones is the author most recently of War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War (Metropolitan ) on the way war affects women from Africa to the Middle East and Asia. She wrote about the struggles of Afghan women in Kabul in Winter (Metropolitan ). She is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. The Iraq debacle has monopolized attention and obscured these “lesser” wars — now officially “over” — but millions of West African women are struggling to recover. For them, the war isn’t really over at all, not by a long shot. This is the war story that’s never truly told. Let me explain.