This thesis focuses on women’s resilience in maintaining their livelihood in conflict situations, in the Bawku municipality of Northern Ghana. It is about women meeting their welfare needs and also sustaining their families in civil conflict situations. To meet this objective, the study draws upon multiple qualitative interviews, focus group discussions and observations from female household traders and farmers in Bawku. The sustainable Livelihood framework supplemented by the concepts of agency and empowerment, are the prism for illuminating how women in Bawku mobilize resources to sustain their families and maintain a sense of dignity. The study findings indicate that women in Bawku devise diverse coping mechanism to provide and sustain their livelihood. These coping mechanisms include farming and petty trading activities like providing meals, scarce necessities, medical supplies and the like, in meaningful ways to make ends meet during conflict times. Women in the study area also form groups and contribute to help those in most need. These groups play an important role in the empowerment process by contributing in many ways to the empowerment of individual women in the area. The women have refused to be victims of conflict but are social agents. They maintain their sense of dignity by engaging in different economic activities contrary to popular assumptions about women suffering greatly and helpless during conflicts periods.