International forensic protocols are typically developed by committees drawn from multiple disciplines and are presented to the forensic community in the hope the protocols will be adopted. While the contributors are undoubtedly experts within their respective disciplines, they may lack practical international large-scale death investigative experience. As a result, the protocols produced are often cumbersome or impractical. Many are abandoned or heavily modified after brief field trials, such as the INFORCE mass grave field protocol in Iraq in 2004 or the Simmon's personal identification protocol in Kosovo in 2000. Information gleaned from any brief field trials is rarely conveyed to the larger forensic community. This study presents the findings of a pilot study examining the validity and feasibility of a proposed protocol, the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict:
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