This downloadable book considers the study of women's rights activists who respond to conflict or crises in their own countries. The authors address their strategies and why it is that the capacity of women activists is extremely limited. In 2003 the Urgent Action Fund launched a year-long project identifying concrete ways to improve international support for the interventions of women's rights activists during all phases of a conflict. Women were interviewed in three conflict areas: the Balkans (Kosovo and Serbia); Sierra Leone; and Sri Lanka.