Caroline O. N. Moser is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute. She is the author of Gender Planning and Development (Tavistock, 1993) and coauthor (with Cathy McIlwaine) of Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala (Routledge, 2004) and (with Fiona Clark) of Victims, Perpetrators, or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence (Zed, 2001).