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This book expands the current 'weapon of war' discourse on sexual violence, highlighting a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women.
List 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?
About the author
Aisling Swaine is Assistant Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science. Swaine is also a Visiting Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, and was previously a Hauser Global Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at the School of Law, New York University. She previously worked with the United Nations and international non-governmental aid organizations in conflict and post-conflict settings, and continues to provide consultation to a number of international organizations including the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court, UN Women and Irish Aid.
Summary
By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions, this book empirically and theoretically expands current understanding of the form and nature of conflict-time harms impacting women, and proposes that a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice processes are to play a role in preventing gendered violence.
