Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition
Cambridge University Press, 1/31/2018
EAN 9781107514195, ISBN10: 1107514193
Paperback, 334 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions (Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste), Conflict-Related Violence against Women empirically and theoretically expands current understanding of the form and nature of conflict-time harms impacting women. The 'violences' that occur in conflict beyond strategic rape are first identified. Employing both a disaggregated and an aggregated approach, relations between forms of violence within and across each context's pre-, mid- and post-conflict phase are then assessed, identifying connections and distinctions in violence. Swaine highlights a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women than is currently acknowledged. She identifies a range of forces that simultaneously push open and close down spaces for addressing violence against women through post-conflict transitional justice. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict, a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice is to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during and after conflict.
Part I. Introduction
1. Introduction
Part II. Approaches to Understanding Conflict-Related Violence Against Women
2. Historic prevalence vs contemporary celebrity
sexing dichotomies in today's wars
3. Who wins the worst violence contest? Armed conflict and violence in Northern Ireland, Liberia and Timor-Leste
Part III. Violence Against Women before, during and after Conflict
4. Beyond strategic rape
expanding conflict-related violence against women
5. Connections and distinctions
ambulant violence across pre-, during and post-conflict contexts
6. Seeing violence in the aftermath
what's labeling got to do with it?
Part IV. Justice, Transition and Transformation
7. Transitions and violence after conflict
transitional justice
8. Conclusion
transition or transformation?