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Title Conflict-related sexual violence : international law, local responses / edited by Tonia St. Germain and Susan Dewey
Edition 1st edition
Published Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages)
Contents International versus transitional? : The politics of prefixes in feminist international relations / Bronwyn Winter -- Creating second-class citizens at home and targets abroad : a feminist analysis of protection in the use of force / Laura Sparling -- Improvements in the legal treatment of systematic mass rape in wartime : where do we go from here? / Avory Faucette -- International criminal justice : advancing the cause of women's rights? : The example of the special court for Sierra Leone / Kiran Grewal -- Combating postconflict violence against women : an analysis of the liberian and Sierra Leonean governments' efforts to address the problem / Peace A. Medie -- Gender-based violence, help-seeking, and criminal justice recourse in Haiti / Benedetta Faedi Duramy -- The Afghan state and the issue of sexual violence against women / Carol Mann -- The experiences of male intimate partners of female rape victims from Cape Town, South Africa : their jouneys from secondary victims to secondary survivors of rape / Evalina van Wijk -- Which conflict? : Which body? : Which nation? : Prostitution, gender, and violence in the Colombian postconflict context / José Miguel Nieto Olivar and Carlos Iván Pacheco Sánchez
Summary The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, "Conflict-Related Sexual Violence" presents completely original work by anthropologists, international human rights lawyers, legal theorists, political scientists, mental health professionals, and activists who report upon their respective research regarding responses to conflict-related sexual violence in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and South Africa. Much more than a series of case studies, though, the bulk of the book addresses the implications of internatinoal responses to conflict-related sexual violence through anlyses of the gaps between policy and practice with respect to efforts made by international organizations, criminal courts and tribunals to reduce or respond to conflict-related sexual violence. Scholarly, reflective, provocative yet practical and action-oriented, this book exemplifies a visionary blending of analysis, evidence, concepts and programs for ameliorating the lot of those whose lives are framed by war and conflict and the striving to find healing and justice -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index
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Subject Rape as a weapon of war.
Sex crimes
Women (International law)
Women -- Crimes against.
Women -- Violence against.
LAW -- International.
Rape as a weapon of war
Sex crimes
Women -- Crimes against
Women (International law)
Women -- Violence against
Sexualdelikt
Gewalt
Konflikt
Frau
Internationales Strafrecht
Form Electronic book
Author Dewey, Susan, editor
St. Germain, Tonia (Tonia Prisca), 1960- editor.
ISBN 1565495055
9781565495050