With reference to the 2004 tsunami crisis in Sri Lanka, this dissertation examines the role that international organizations and international non-governmental organizations can play in preventing and responding to gender-based violence in natural disaster situations. Whilst women are commonly acknowledged to be more vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters, their particular vulnerability to gender-based violence in a natural disaster context is less recognized and remains neglected by both disaster management and to the discussion on gender-based violence.

Fischer, Sarah 2005: Gender Based Violence in Sri Lanka in the after-math of the 2004 Tsunami Crisis: The Role of International Organisations and International NGOs in Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence. University of Leeds Institute of Politics and International Studies. Dissertation.

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