Conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to peace and security of the world

Abstract

The aim of the article is to conduct a review of the main trends in the impact of sexual violence in the course of armed conflict on the growing threat to world peace and security. The subject of the study is conflict-related sexual violence. The research methodology includes the following methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, logical, normative and dogmatic, monographic, system and structural, summarization. Research results. The concept of sexual violence related to the conflict, provided in international legal acts, is considered, its features and characteristics are studied. The goals of the use of sexual violence during armed or military conflict are established. Practical meaning. It is emphasized that every military conflict is accompanied by sexual violence, despite the adopted international agreements, conventions and resolutions that prohibit such actions. Value / originality. It is noted that conflict-related sexual violence remains a systematic, widespread, pervasive and universal phenomenon that poses a direct threat to world peace and human security.