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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

Author : Elizabeth D. Heineman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812204346

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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones by Elizabeth D. Heineman Pdf

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve postconflict stability.

Sexual Violence during War and Peace

Author : J. Boesten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137383457

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Sexual Violence during War and Peace by J. Boesten Pdf

Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to sexual violence in wartime are conditional upon profound changes in legal frameworks and practices, institutions, and society at large.

War and Sexual Violence

Author : Sarah Kristina Danielsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humanitarian law
ISBN : 3657702660

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War and Sexual Violence by Sarah Kristina Danielsson Pdf

In the #MeToo era, the scourge of sexual violence in society has come into new focus. It has become clear that women and men have been, and are, victimized to an extent that many had previously not realized. But this invisibility has largely been aided by a history of silencing victims and of impunity for perpetrators. Wartime and military sexual violence has similar patterns of invisibility, silence and impunity. Furthermore, sexual violence in wartime and beyond is a phenomenon that cannot be divorced from broader social, economic and political issues. It is this dual focus on sexual violence itself and its contexualization that lies at the heart of this volume. This volume probes new directions in understanding sexual violence during conflict, as well as analyzing ethnicity, masculinity and their relationships to sexual violence.

The Securitization of Rape

Author : S. Hirschauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137410825

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The Securitization of Rape by S. Hirschauer Pdf

This book uniquely applies securitization theory to the mass sexual violence atrocities committed during the Bosnia war and the Rwandan genocide. Examining the inherent links between rape, war and global security, Hirschauer analyses the complexities of conflict related sexual violence.

Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?

Author : Maria Eriksson Baaz,Professor Maria Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780321653

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Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? by Maria Eriksson Baaz,Professor Maria Stern Pdf

All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence and militarization, the authors address many of the thorny issues inherent in the arrival of sexual violence on the global security agenda. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual violence from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field, on an issue that has become an increasingly important security, legal and gender topic.

Gender Violence in Peace and War

Author : Victoria Sanford,Katerina Stefatos,Cecilia M. Salvi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813576206

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Gender Violence in Peace and War by Victoria Sanford,Katerina Stefatos,Cecilia M. Salvi Pdf

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of state violence against women throughout the twentieth century, in locations as diverse as Ireland, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Others spotlight ongoing struggles to define the state’s role in preventing gendered violence, from domestic abuse policies in the Russian Federation to anti-trafficking laws in the United States. Bringing together cutting-edge research from political science, history, gender studies, anthropology, and legal studies, this collection offers a comparative analysis of how the state facilitates, legitimates, and perpetuates gender violence worldwide. The contributors also offer vital insights into how states might adequately protect women’s rights in peacetime, as well as how to intervene when a state declares war on its female citizens.

Sexual Violence

Author : Linda A. Fairstein
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0425147800

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Sexual Violence by Linda A. Fairstein Pdf

The author, an assistant district attorney in New York County and the director of the sex crimes prosecution unit, describes some cases she's handled. For general readers. No bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields

Author : Christina Lamb
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501199172

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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields by Christina Lamb Pdf

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice. We have made significant progress in international women’s rights, but across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn’t matter in the reckoning of war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves, trying to trap them through Facebook. In this profoundly important book, Christina Lamb shines a light on some of the darkest parts of the human experience—so that we might find a new way forward. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is as inspiring and empowering is as it is urgent, a clarion call for necessary change.

Rape in Wartime

Author : R. Branche,F. Virgili
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137283399

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Rape in Wartime by R. Branche,F. Virgili Pdf

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.

The Political Psychology of War Rape

Author : Inger Skjelsbæk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136620928

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The Political Psychology of War Rape by Inger Skjelsbæk Pdf

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding sexual violence in war, and its impact focussing in particular on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It situates Bosnian war-rape in relation to subsequent conflicts; outlines how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political psychological perspective; and examines the effect of war- rape on victims and communities in the aftermath of armed conflict.

Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict

Author : Stacy Banwell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787691179

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Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict by Stacy Banwell Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, this book delves into visual and text-based materials to unpack gender-based violence(s) perpetrated and experienced by both sexes within and beyond the conflict zone.

In Plain Sight

Author : Gaby Zipfel, Kirsten Campbell,Regina Mühlhäuser, (eds.)
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789385932922

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In Plain Sight by Gaby Zipfel, Kirsten Campbell,Regina Mühlhäuser, (eds.) Pdf

In the mid 1970s, at the peak of the women’s movement, feminist activism and research opened the door to questions that are still pressing today. While sexual violence has gained public awareness and become a subject in academic debate, efforts to understand and strategies to prevent this form of violence remain inadequate. Who are the perpetrators? How is sexual violence tied to other forms of violence? What are the consequences for individual victims and societies? Compiled by the International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC), this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding wartime sexual violence. Its enquiry employs four key relationships: War/Power, Violence/Sexuality, Gender/Engendering and Visibility/Invisibility. Through these, the authors identify gaps in existing knowledge to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the field. This volume is the result of long-standing cooperation. The International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC) is a network of interdisciplinary scholars and NGO experts founded in October 2010. Sociologists, philosophers, historians, literary and legal scholars as well as NGO professionals from Europe, the US, Asia and Africa bring together empirical and theoretical studies focusing on sexual violence in different theatres of armed conflict. The group compares source material and promotes the systematic development of research questions and methods.

International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts

Author : Chile Eboe-Osuji
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004227224

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International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts by Chile Eboe-Osuji Pdf

Sexual violence is a particular brand of evil that women have endured—more than men—during armed conflicts, through the ages. It is a menace that has continued to challenge the conscience of humanity—especially in our times. At the international level, basic laws aimed at preventing it are not in short supply. What is needed is a more conscious determination to enforce existing laws. This book explores ways of doing just that; thereby shoring up international legal protection of women from sexual violence in armed conflicts.

Born of War

Author : R. Charli Carpenter
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781565492370

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Born of War by R. Charli Carpenter Pdf

'Born of War' examines the human rights of children born of wartime rape and sexual exploitation in worldwide conflict zones. Detailing the impacts of armed conflict on these children's survival, protection and membership rights, the text suggests that these children constitute a particularly vulnerable category in conflict zones.

Rape during Civil War

Author : Dara Kay Cohen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501706530

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Rape during Civil War by Dara Kay Cohen Pdf

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012. Cohen also conducted extensive fieldwork, including interviews with perpetrators of wartime rape, in three postconflict counties, finding that rape was widespread in the civil wars of the Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste but was far less common during El Salvador’s civil war. Cohen argues that armed groups that recruit their fighters through the random abduction of strangers use rape—and especially gang rape—to create bonds of loyalty and trust between soldiers. The statistical evidence confirms that armed groups that recruit using abduction are more likely to perpetrate rape than are groups that use voluntary methods, even controlling for other confounding factors. Important findings from the fieldwork—across cases—include that rape, even when it occurs on a massive scale, rarely seems to be directly ordered. Instead, former fighters describe participating in rape as a violent socialization practice that served to cut ties with fighters’ past lives and to signal their commitment to their new groups. Results from the book lay the groundwork for the systematic analysis of an understudied form of civilian abuse. The book will also be useful to policymakers and organizations seeking to understand and to mitigate the horrors of wartime rape.