Violence in War and in Men?

Viewing the role of men and women in conflict from an outside view was very interesting. This was especially engaging when Goldstein discussed how men and women both have biological attributes that would make them effective in conflict, but that men were used because of a few more strengths. I also enjoyed how he discussed how these biological attributes could have been used for peaceful purposes. By breaking apart men and women in conflict and viewing the type of jobs that both groups were engaged in and then again taking a look at gendered notions of the conflict was also very interesting. I was not sure if these notions are what taught conflict or fi the conflict roles ended up teaching these notions. Either way the lasting effect of such ideas has, in my opinion, created more violence among men who were before being labeled as so were not violent.