Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local Responses - Softcover

9781565495043: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local Responses

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565495047 ISBN 13: 9781565495043

Publisher: Kumarian Press, 2012

The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence presents completely original work by anthropologists, international human rights lawyers, legal theorists, political scientists, mental health professionals, and activists who report upon their respective research regarding responses to conflict-related sexual violence in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and South Africa. Much more than a series of case studies, though, the bulk of the book addresses the implications of international responses to conflict-related sexual violence through analyses of the gaps between policy and practice with respect to efforts made by international organizations, criminal courts and tribunals to reduce or respond to conflict-related sexual violence. Scholarly, reflective, provocative yet practical and action-oriented, this book exemplifies a visionary blending of analysis, evidence, concepts and programs for ameliorating the lot of those whose lives are framed by war and conflict and the striving to find healing and justice.

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About the Author:

Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming.

Review:

"This impressively diverse interdisciplinary volume addresses the occurence of and legal reactions to conflict-related sexual violence... The book's strengths include the diversity of perspectives that it contains, the rich resulrs of fieldwork in many of the chapters and the careful analysisof the legal and the practical dimensions..Summing up: Recommended."

"Through this collection of scholarly work, St. Germain and Dewey provide an insightful, critical analysis of current international legal structures spurring the necessary debate of how to ensure these institutions remain reflexive in their approaches to conflict-related sexual violence."

"Scholarly, reflective, provocative yet practical and action-oriented, this book exemplifies a visionary blending of analysis, evidence, concepts and programs for ameliorating the lot of those whose lives are framed by war and conflict and the striving to find healing and justice."

"I've learned so much from reading Dewey and St. Germain's wonderfully informed contributors' descriptions, explanations and warnings - about what feminist prosecutorial strategies would look like, about why legal definitions matter, about specific obstacles on the road to formal justice for women survivors of wartime sexual assault. This is a book for anyone who cares about achieving post-war gender justice."

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