the invocation of individual and inclusive rights is more likely to have a desecuritizing impact while the claim of exclusive rights for one group may result in further violation of human rights the individualcollective and inclusiveexclusive dimensions of rights formulation are very important to gender in peacetime as well as in war this definition points to an interdependency of the individualcollective levels as the claims of human rights of women hinge upon individual rights as well as on a collective identity in the context of war collective women s rights claims especially when invoked exclusively can have securitizing impacts by reifying gender identities and playing into ethnopolitical strategies