Conflict-Related Violence against Women
Conflict-Related Violence against Women
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By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions (Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste), Conflict-Related Violence against Women empirically and theoretically expands current understanding of the form and nature of conflict-time harms impacting women. The 'violences' that occur in conflict beyond strategic rape are first identified. Employing both a disaggregated and an aggregated approach, relations between forms of violence within and across each context's pre-, mid- and post-conflict phase are then assessed, identifying connections and distinctions in violence. Swaine highlights a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women than is currently acknowledged. She identifies a range of forces that simultaneously push open and close down spaces for addressing violence against women through post-conflict transitional justice. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict, a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice is to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during and after conflict.
- Examines post-conflict transition and transitional justice through the lens of relationships among pre-, mid- and post-conflict violence against women
- Identifies connections and distinctions in conflict-related violence against women
- Provides a methodology for examining broader forms of violence
Product details
- Published: January 2018
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781108327107
- Length: 0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Introduction
- Part II. Approaches to Understanding Conflict-Related Violence Against Women:
- 2. Historic prevalence vs contemporary celebrity: sexing dichotomies in today's wars
- 3. Who wins the worst violence contest? Armed conflict and violence in Northern Ireland, Liberia and Timor-Leste
- Part III. Violence Against Women before, during and after Conflict:
- 4. Beyond strategic rape: expanding conflict-related violence against women
- 5. Connections and distinctions: ambulant violence across pre-, during and post-conflict contexts
- 6. Seeing violence in the aftermath: what's labeling got to do with it?
- Part IV. Justice, Transition and Transformation:
- 7. Transitions and violence after conflict: transitional justice
- 8. Conclusion: transition or transformation?
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