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Conflict-Related Violence against Women

Transforming Transition
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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
February 15th, 2018
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
332
Dimensions
156x235x22
ISBN-13
9781107106345
Product ID
26797590

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