Sexual Violence in War

Abstract

The study of sexual violence in war and conflict around the world has soared since the mid-1990s. The degree to which rape was used in wars in the former Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda, the attention it received from the world media, the evidence pouring out of these conflict zones, and the following prosecutions of perpetrators at International Criminal Tribunals have firmly put rape in war on the international agenda. Rape has long been a topic of feminist enquiry and activism. However, international peace building, transitional justice, and international criminal prosecution discourse and practice have only recently begun to focus on the issue, and despite increased attention in policy, legal, and academic spheres, rape in war nor gender-based violence in peace has mitigated or reduced in any significant way. This suggests there is still much we do not understand and do not know how to deal with.KeywordsSexual ViolenceArmed ForceTransitional JusticeInternational Criminal TribunalHonor CodeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.