RT Book
T1 Wartime sexual violence: from silence to condemnation of a weapon of war
A1 Crawford, Kerry F.
LA English
PP Washington DC
PB Georgetown University Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1631548662
AB In armed conflict, systematic sexual violence is used all too frequently as a strategic weapon to terrorize an opponent's communities. Wartime sexual violence has transitioned rapidly from a neglected human rights issue to an unambiguous security concern on the agendas of powerful states and the United Nations Security Council. What has caused this transition, and what are its impacts? Kerry F. Crawford investigates through interviews and primary-source evidence the political impetuses for this change and the results of the securitization of sexual violence. Crawford explains how change started in the 1990s with the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and then accelerated in the 2000s. Three case studies--the United States' response to sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1820 in 2008, and the development of the United Kingdom's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative--illustrate that use of the weapon of war frame does not represent pure cooptation by the security sector. Rather, well-placed advocates have used the frame to push the anti-sexual violence agenda while simultaneously working to move beyond the frame's constraints.
NO Literaturverzeichnis Seite 191-204, Register
CN JZ6405.W66
SN 9781626164666
SN 9781626164659
K1 Women : Violence against
K1 Violence : Economic aspects
K1 War : Economic aspects
K1 Women and war
K1 Rape as a weapon of war
K1 Sex crimes
K1 Kriegführung
K1 Bewaffneter Konflikt
K1 Gewalt
K1 Sexualverhalten
K1 Frau
K1 Gewalttätigkeit
K1 Kriegsverbrechen
K1 Waffe
K1 Potenzial
K1 Waffensystem
K1 Fallstudie
K1 Erde
K1 Krieg : Frau : Vergewaltigung : Waffe : Strategie