The Transformation of Women in the Three Southern Boarder Provinces from Victims into Social Activists

Abstract

          For over a decade, there has been violence in the southern border provinces. Women in the area have been increasingly involved in the efforts to deal with violence and conflict management. The changing role of women in the southern border provinces may be said to have been the result of the women’s success in overcoming fear and becoming a social force. This article is intended to describe the transformation process. The role of the women who were adversely affected by the unrest in the southern border provinces has been transformed from 'loss' into the public role of 'social activists'. The study indicates that the healing process and the use of social capital have an important effect on the transformation. Assuming this the public role, the women will be able to show more of their potential. The whole process is a transformative mechanism of conflict that affects individuals at different levels, i.e. transforming them into social activists in the southern border provinces.