RT Book
T1 Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
T2 War and conflict in the modern world
A1 Leatherman, Janie 1959-
LA German
LA English
PP Cambridge Malden, MA
PB Polity Press
YR 2011
ED 1. publ.
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/624593495
AB "Every year, hundreds of thousands of people become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world, most of them women and girls; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 200,000 have faced sexual violence since 1998, and those attacks continue to devastate Eastern Congo in particular, leading to the systematic collapse of safe space. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of, as well as responses to, sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the functions and effects of wartime sexual violence as part of a global political economy of violence. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such as patriarchy and militarized masculinity in a tangled web of plunder and profit. Difficult questions of accountability are tackled; in particular, the case of child soldiers, who often suffer a double victimization when forced to commit sexual atrocities and other crimes. The book concludes by looking at strategies of prevention and protection as well as an ethics of caring to support the rehabilitation of survivors and their reintegration into family and community life. Sexual violence in war has long been a taboo subject but, as this book shows, new and courageous steps are at last being taken--at both local and international levels--to end what has been called the "greatest silence in history." "--P. [4] of cover
AB "Every year, hundreds of thousands of people become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world, most of them women and girls; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 200,000 have faced sexual violence since 1998, and those attacks continue to devastate Eastern Congo in particular, leading to the systematic collapse of safe space. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of, as well as responses to, sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the functions and effects of wartime sexual violence as part of a global political economy of violence. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such as patriarchy and militarized masculinity in a tangled web of plunder and profit. Difficult questions of accountability are tackled; in particular, the case of child soldiers, who often suffer a double victimization when forced to commit sexual atrocities and other crimes. The book concludes by looking at strategies of prevention and protection as well as an ethics of caring to support the rehabilitation of survivors and their reintegration into family and community life. Sexual violence in war has long been a taboo subject but, as this book shows, new and courageous steps are at last being taken--at both local and international levels--to end what has been called the "greatest silence in history." "--P. [4] of cover
CN HV6250.4.W65
SN 9780745641881
SN 9780745641874
SN 0745641873
SN 0745641881
K1 Women : Crimes against
K1 Children : Crimes against
K1 Women and war
K1 Children and war
K1 War and society
K1 Sex crimes
K1 War victims
K1 Gewalt
K1 Sexualverhalten
K1 Sexuelle Gewalt
K1 Vergewaltigung
K1 Bewaffneter Konflikt
K1 Krieg
K1 Sexualdelikt
K1 Kindersoldaten
K1 Child soldiers
K1 Krieg : Bewaffneter Konflikt : Vergewaltigung : Sexualdelikt : Internationaler Strafgerichtshof