Activities heavily associated with violence are overwhelmingly shaped by understandings of gender and gender roles . War , for example , in contemporary understandings is divided between civilian and combatants with a general understanding that men make up the vast majority of combatants and women and young children the majority of civilians . In cases like the Srebenica massacre , in which 8,000 men and male children were killed , the basis of their murder was a gendered understanding that they had the potential of being , or becoming combatants in the Bosnian war
Srebenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Gender violence