Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Here are a few pieces written by myself and others for those new to the topic https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">I indicate shorter open access pieces with https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> (Of course, this is only a snapshot)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> This policy brief by @RobertUNagel and @ragnhildnordas provides an excellent overview of the prevalence and variation in conflict-related sexual violence around the world: https://www.prio.org/utility/DownloadFile.ashx?id=1655&type=publicationfile">https://www.prio.org/utility/D...
The data the policy brief (and much of the quantitative academic work on CRSV) is based on is the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict dataset maintained by Dara Cohen and @ragnhildnordas: http://www.sexualviolencedata.org/dataset/ ">https://www.sexualviolencedata.org/dataset/&...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Bringing gender and structural factors into the discussion of CRSV, and how to combat it, is important. Women mobilizing against CRSV in civil society consider patriarchal structures the biggest problem, as I discuss in this policy brief on Colombia: https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=12142">https://www.prio.org/Publicati...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Y la versión española: ¿Cómo comprende la sociedad civil la violencia sexual relacionada con los conflictos? Perspectivas de mujeres activistas en Colombia https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=12304">https://www.prio.org/Publicati...
In this great article, @CarloKoos shows that families affected by CRSV in Sierra Leone exhibit social resilience: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887117000351">https://doi.org/10.1017/S... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Read a short blog post on this here: https://www.cmi.no/news/2202-towards-a-more-comprehensive-understanding-of-conflict-related-sexual-violence">https://www.cmi.no/news/2202...
These are encouraging signs, amidst the many detrimental and traumatizing consequences CRSV has for victims, families and communities. They point to mechanisms of coping and resistance and illustrate the agency of those often considered passive
In confronting CRSV, it is important to take note of and support these forces, processes of mobilization and resistance, keeping both conflict dynamics and the structural factors underpinning the perpetration of CRSV in mind
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> And of course, it is also important to acknowledge the reality of the victimization of men and boys in CRSV, who often face unique challenges as @philipp_schulz1 explains: https://medium.com/international-affairs-blog/how-wartime-sexual-violence-affects-men-3670f80eb051">https://medium.com/internati...
Confronting CRSV requires awareness of prevalence, patterns and variations, of the different kinds of perpetrators and the different forms this violence takes. It also requires understanding how this violence affects its victims and those targeted
And it requires understanding, taking seriously and supporting expressions of agency by those most directly and acutely exposed to and affected by these violence.
This is nowhere near an exhaustive list of the excellent scholarship on CRSV that is out there. Unfortunately, I don& #39;t have time to do a longer thread today, but please feel free to share additional articles in the comments, and I will add them to the thread
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