deliberate effort to adopt and implement strategies that respond to these differences, women’s situation is likely to deteriorate. Women and men both experience conflict related sexual violence but fewer men report the incidence. The SGs report on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding 2010 states that in post conflict environments, there are high chances of sexual violence escalating if it had been a component of the conflict phase, or the potential to trigger increased sexual violence where it was not rampant before,79 and new threats can emerge. In Northern Uganda, women returnees reported that following the protracted war in which sexual violence against women was prevalent, not only was this vice maintained in the post conflict phase but unlike before, domestic violence rose disproportionately.80 The role of the state in deploying human and financial resources towards sector security governance requires a gendered response that cannot be guaranteed without the involvement of women and men on equal terms. 79 UN General Assembly ‘Women’s participation in peacebuilding: Report of the Secretary-General’ A/65/354– S/2010/466, 7 September 2010 80 Nanair V ‘In the Multiple Systems of Justice Whither Justice for Women?’ 2011 FIDA Uganda 34