Suchergebnisse

Part I. Rethinking institutions -- The rise (and fall?) of transitional gender justice : a survey of the field / Lucy Fiske -- Ebola and post-conflict gender justice : lessons from Liberia / Pamela Scully -- Making clients out of citizens : deconstructing women's empowerment and humanitarianism in post-conflict interventions / Rita Shackel and Lucy Fiske -- Using war to shift peacetime norms : the example of forced marriage in Sierra Leone / Kiran Grewal -- More than a victim : thinking through foreign correspondents' representations of women in conflict / Chrisanthi Giotis -- Part II. Rethinking interventions -- WPS, gender and foreign military interveners : experience from Iraq and Afghanistan / Angeline Lewis -- Addressing masculinities in peace negotiations : an opportunity for gender justice / Philipp Kastner and Elisabeth Roy-Trudel -- Recalling violence : gender and memory work in contemporary post-conflict Peru / Jelke Boesten -- International Criminal Court prosecutions of sexual and gender-based violence : challenges and successes / Rita Shackel -- Part III. Learning from the field -- Speaking from the ground : transitional gender justice in Nepal / Punam Yadav -- Quechua women : agency in the testimonies of the CVR-Peru public hearings / Sofia Macher -- The effects of indigenous patriarchal systems on women's participation in public decision-making in conflict settings : the case of Somalia / Fowsia Abdulkadir and Rahma Abdulkadir -- "Women are not ready to [vote for] their own" : remaking democracy, making citizens after the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya / Christina Kenny -- "An education without any fear?" : higher education and gender justice in Afghanistan / Anne Maree Payne, Nina Burridge, and Nasima Rahmani -- Transitioning with disability : justice for women with disabilities in post-war Sri Lanka / Dinesha Samararatne and Karen Soldatic -- Conclusion / Rita Shackel and Lucy Fiske

The rape of women has for centuries been an endemic feature of war, yet perpetrators largely go unpunished. Women were sanctioned as the spoils of war in biblical times and more recently it has been claimed that it is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in modern conflict. Nevertheless, until the establishment of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – there was very little concern regarding the need to address the rape of women in conflict.This paper briefly maps historical attitudes towards rape in war, outlines some analyses and explanations of why rape in war occurs and finally turns more substantively to recent efforts by the international community to prosecute rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity. We argue, that while commendable in some ways, contemporary approaches to rape in war risk reinforcing aspects of women's status which contribute to the targeting of women for rape and continue to displace women from the centre to the margins in debates and practices surrounding rape in both war and peace time. We conclude by arguing that criminal prosecutions alone are insufficient and that, if we are to end the rape of women and girls in war (and peace) we need a radical restructuring of gender relations across every sphere of social and political life.

The rape of women has for centuries been an endemic feature of war, yet perpetrators largely go unpunished. Women were sanctioned as the spoils of war in biblical times and more recently it has been claimed that it is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in modern conflict. Nevertheless, until the establishment of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – there was very little concern regarding the need to address the rape of women in conflict.This paper briefly maps historical attitudes towards rape in war, outlines some analyses and explanations of why rape in war occurs and finally turns more substantively to recent efforts by the international community to prosecute rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity. We argue, that while commendable in some ways, contemporary approaches to rape in war risk reinforcing aspects of women's status which contribute to the targeting of women for rape and continue to displace women from the centre to the margins in debates and practices surrounding rape in both war and peace time. We conclude by arguing that criminal prosecutions alone are insufficient and that, if we are to end the rape of women and girls in war (and peace) we need a radical restructuring of gender relations across every sphere of social and political life.