The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in the DRC

Meger, Sara

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“…Sexual violence and rape were widespread in many of the armed conflicts in Latin American countries such as Guatemala in the 1970s, even though, there was significant variation in the spread of these phenomena (Wood 2006). Yet, sexual violence remained both understudied and under-analyzed as it was not considered equivalent to other forms of violence such as killings and torture often observed in armed conflicts (Meger 2016;Skjelsbaek 2001). Early feminist research made the case that sexual violence was not an inevitable by-product of war, but a reflection of the unequal gender relationships and insecurity experienced by women in their daily lives both in war and peace (Kelly 2000).…”

Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feminist scholars, have argued against simplistic definitions. They problematized the concepts of security and sexual violence as applied in most of the international security literature (Baaz and Stern 2008Meger 2016). Scholars like Skjelsbaek (2010) and Seifert (1994) argued that sexual violence has distinct characteristics from other types of violence observed in wars, because it reflects fundamental power dynamics rooted in social norms and institutions both in war and beyond war.…”

Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent research has focused on the causes of sexual violence in armed conflict within two lines of inquiry-either as an opportunistic by-product of war or as a strategic weapon of war (Meger 2016). However, scholars including Eisenstein (2007), Mackenzie (2010), Meger (2016), and Whitworth (2004) have challenged this work for moving away from early feminist discourse by adopting narrow concepts of security and sexual violence. Adopting formulaic and narrow concepts, usually emphasizing rape, researchers sensationalize sexual violence.…”

Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We recognize the deep-rooted structures that may engender sexual violence highlighted by feminist researchers (Enloe 2000;Meger 2016;Seifert 1994). Sexual violence often reflects deeper forms of hierarchical, violent social structures with implications beyond domestic and international security (MacKenzie 2010; Meger 2016).…”

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A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?

Benson

Gizelis

2019

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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There is increasing awareness that sexual violence is distinct from other aspects of civilian victimization in civil wars. Few studies have examined the independent impact of such violence on responses to civil wars as compared to “traditional” forms of violence. This article explores whether reports of high levels of rape and sexual violence increase the probability of United Nations (UN) attention to conflicts and calls to action. In so doing, we combine original data on UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions with data on sexual violence in armed conflict and estimate the impact of sexual violence on UN attention to all civil wars from 1990 to 2009. We show that the effects of sexual violence on the number and level of UNSC resolutions are significant even when controlling for other important determinants of UN action. These findings have important implications for understanding how the UN has expanded its view on protecting civilians.

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Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenging the Norm Of Sexual Violence In Armed Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?

Benson

Gizelis

2019

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Algunas organizaciones adoptan la violación como política con objetivos militares, es decir, como una estrategia, incluyendo varias, pero no todas, de las organizaciones que realizan limpiezas étnicas o genocidios, y las que realizan la tortura sexual. Algunos ejemplos incluyen las milicias serbias en la antigua Yugoslavia, las milicias Janjaweed de Sudán, y los militares guatemaltecos durante la guerra civil de ese país (Wood, 2015;Meger, 2016). El caso más común es que la violación u otras formas de violencia sexual no son explícitamente ordenadas, pero sí son autorizadas, por medio de consignas como "estamos comprometidos con la guerra total" u otros tipos de retórica que promueven la violencia sexual.…”

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La violación como práctica de guerra: hacia una tipología de la violencia política

Wood

2019

Estud. Socio-Juríd

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Cuando una organización armada comete frecuentes violaciones, a menudo se considera que se trata de una estrategia de guerra. Pero en algunos casos, las violaciones asociadas a un conflicto se podrían interpretar mejor como una práctica, es decir, un tipo de violencia que no ha sido adoptado explícitamente como política por la organización, pero que es tolerada por los comandantes. En este artículo, la tipología de la violación relacionada con el conflicto examina no solo las relaciones verticales entre los comandantes (principales) y combatientes (agentes), sino también las interacciones sociales horizontales entre los combatientes. Analiza en qué casos es probable que la violación sea una práctica prevalente, enfocándose no solo en las normas y creencias de género de los combatientes, sino también en la forma en que estas son transformadas por los procesos sociales de las organizaciones. Como conclusión, sugiero que esta tipología es relevante para el análisis de todas las formas de violencia política, y también para los fiscales, defensores de derechos y los encargados de diseñar políticas sobre violaciones relacionadas con el conflicto.

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Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory

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This paper critically interrogates the usefulness of the concept of violence regimes for social politics, social analysis, and social theory. In the first case, violence regimes address and inform politics and policy, that is, social politics, both around various forms of violence, such as gender-based violence, violence against women, anti-lesbian, gay and transgender violence, intimate partner violence, and more widely in terms of social and related policies and practices on violence and anti-violence. In the second case, violence regimes assist social analysis of the interconnections of different forms and aspects of violence, and relative autonomy from welfare regimes and gender regimes. Third, the violence regime concept engages a wider range of issues in social theory, including the exclusion of the knowledges of the violated, most obviously, but not only, when the voices and experiences of those killed are unheard. The concept directs attention to assumptions made in social theory as incorporating or neglecting violence. More specifically, it highlights the significance of: social effects beyond agency; autotelic ontology, that is, violence as a means and end in itself, and an inequality in itself; the relations of violence, sociality and social relations; violence and power, and the contested boundary between them; and materiality-discursivity in violence and what is to count as violence. These are key issues for both violence studies and social theory more generally.

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The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in the DRC

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A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?

A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?

La violación como práctica de guerra: hacia una tipología de la violencia política

Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory

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