Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones
Title Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth D. Heineman
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 349
Release 2011-04-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0812204344

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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 and Armed Conflict

Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
Title Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict PDF eBook
Author Janie L. Leatherman
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 178
Release 2013-04-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0745658350

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses to sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the function and effect of wartime sexual violence and examines the conditions that make women and girls most vulnerable to these acts both before, during and after conflict. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such as patriarchy and militarized masculinity. Difficult questions of accountability are tackled; in particular, the case of child soldiers, who often suffer a double victimization when forced to commit sexual atrocities. The book concludes by looking at strategies of prevention and protection as well as new programs being set up on the ground to support the rehabilitation of survivors and their communities. Sexual violence in war has long been a taboo subject but, as this book shows, new and courageous steps are at last being taken Ð at both local and international level - to end what has been called the “greatest silence in history”.

Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men

Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men
Title Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men PDF eBook
Author Elise Féron
Publisher Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Humiliation
ISBN 9781786609298

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The book explores patterns of wartime sexual violence against men, and presents survivors', but also perpetrators' stories.

Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict

Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict
Title Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict PDF eBook
Author Jamille Bigio
Publisher Council on Foreign Relations
Pages 55
Release 2017-10-01
Genre
ISBN 087609728X

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Sexual violence in conflict is not simply a gross violation of human rights—it is also a security challenge.

Born of War

Born of War
Title Born of War PDF eBook
Author R. Charli Carpenter
Publisher Kumarian Press
Pages 257
Release 2007
Genre Law
ISBN 1565492374

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'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.

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

Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict
Title Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict PDF eBook
Author Stacy Banwell
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 251
Release 2020-10-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1787691179

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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.

International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts

International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
Title International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts PDF eBook
Author Chile Eboe-Osuji
Publisher Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Pages 372
Release 2012-08-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9004227229

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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.