Conflict-Related Violence Against Women Transforming Transition

TitleConflict-Related Violence Against Women Transforming Transition
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsSwaine, Aisling
Number of Pages321
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityCambridge, UK
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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. (Cambridge University Press)

URLhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/conflict-related-violence-against-women-transforming-transition/oclc/1085064527&referer=brief_results
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