Philipp Schulz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89954 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Philipp Schulz |
| NOMBRES | Philipp |
| APELLIDO | Schulz |
| FIRMA | SCHULZ P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9388-0080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Turning a Blind-Eye? A Critical Reflection About the Metaphor of Turns in International Studies
In this research note, I critically reflect on the metaphor of turns in international studies. The language of turns, I am concerned, can encourage scholarly tendencies of turning to and turning away from particular phenomena of global politics, conflict, and peace, which can reinforce dichotomous thinking. What I call for instead is an approach to theorizing and analysis that does not turn to and away, but that rather allows for simultaneities a…
Finally, someone asks about something other than violence«
What does it mean – theoretically, methodologically and ethically – to focus on forced migrants’ agency and care? In this paper, we consider these different dimensions of centering the agency and care of forced migrants and of moving beyond singular stories focused on violence and vulnerabilities. First, we engage with the conceptual parameters of exploring those (counter-)narratives of agency and care, offering a theoretical framework that accou…
Pieces of the Same Puzzle
As we mark 25 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the place of this landmark agenda on the global political stage has never been more fragile, nor more fraught. In the same breath, the importance of paying careful and critical attention to men, masculinities, and their positioning in and relationship to the WPS agenda — and peace and security writ large — has never been more…
Forced migrants as actors of care
Recognizing the agency of forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics
In recent years, scholarship and policy reports have slowly attended to the lived realities of forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). However, these emerging discourses are typically characterized by a violation-centric view that focuses on queer migrants’ vulnerabilities and experiences of victimization. Yet, what remains strikingly absent from existing research and…
How did you become interested in this?” On personal and academic entanglements
Love and Care in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda
Dominant storylines about armed conflicts and rebel groups, such as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group in Uganda, typically focus on violence, suffering, harm, and abuse. Without a doubt, life within insurgency groups, including in the LRA, is characterized by immense social suffering, typically portrayed to be beyond the pale of humanity. Yet, what of the connections of compassion, joy, love, and care that emerged in the context of coh…
He came as a Boy and Returned as a Man' - Field Research, Parenting and Masculinity in Northern Uganda
Despite growing engagement with researchers' positionalities and applications of reflexivity, considerations for researchers' identities and experiences as parents remain under-developed. In particular, reflections about conducting research in the presence of one's family continue to be a marginal topic in discussions about research methods, ethics and fieldwork. More recently, a small body of literature on the family dimensions of conducting fie…
How Locally Owned and Sustainable Are Victims’ Groups in Postconflict and Transitional Settings? Reflections from Northern Uganda
Victims’ groups in postconflict settings have gained increasing attention in transitional justice scholarship and programming, as entry points for victims to engage with external transitional justice mechanisms, or as vehicles to facilitate healing, recovery or justice making on the micro level. These groups are often presented in terms of local ownership, victims’ participation and self-reliance. Based on work in Uganda, I have previously argued…
Give Me a Sign
Our findings revealed an advantage of concrete double-coded symbols over conventional symbols and therefore strongly suggest the implementation of concrete double-coded signs to support older people living with ADD
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers - Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines
Researching sensitive topics often carries immediate effects on researchers, yet discussions about the emotional and psychological impacts of conducting this type of research remain rare. In recent years, debates begun to emerge about the emotional and psychological toll that qualitative field-based research on violence in general, and on gender-based violence (GBV) in particular, can have on those conducting this research. Most of the existing s…
Broadening the scope but reasserting male privilege? Potential patriarchal pitfalls of inclusive approaches to gender-based violence
Sexual violence against men and boys (SVAMB) in conflict has in recent years become a prominent topic in research and on the international policy stage. Simultaneously, there has been a slow but steady increase of attention to gendered harms against persons of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). These shifts, albeit slow and belated, are in many ways welcome and overdue. However, whil…
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict
In this article, we nuance the relationships between political agency, victimhood, and gender during armed conflicts. Dominant narratives often spotlight individuals as either passive victims or active agents. These representations are especially pronounced for sexual violence against women in conflict, where gendered conceptions of victimhood and agency remain particularly salient. Recent scholarship challenges this dichotomized way of thinking,…
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
The 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' in northern Uganda and beyond
This paper puts forward the framework of the 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' as a conceptual, analytical, and heuristic tool to comprehend better holistic dynamics in humanitarian and post-conflict contexts, where a variety of different actors offer various services and forms of assistance. It seeks to emphasise relations and interactions between service providers and intended beneficiaries in settings where there are often numerous dif…
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Researching conflict-related sexual violence
March 2019. It was a brisk spring day in Toronto. We were having lunch in the crowded food court opposite the conference hotel. This was the first time that we had sat down and openly spoken about
Recognizing research participants' fluid positionalities in (post-)conflict zones
This article re-conceptualizes the highly ambivalent relationships between researchers and research participants in conflict zones, with a focus on recognizing respondents' multiple and fluid positionalities. Standardized and dominant approaches to qualitative research are largely based on essentialist and infantilized portrayals of research participants and neo-colonial assumptions regarding the research relationship: informants are presumed to …
From ‘It Rarely Happens’ to ‘It’s Worse for Men’
Sexual violence against men and boys in conflict and displacement has garnered increasing attention over the past decade and has been recognised in UN Security Resolution 2467. Despite increased evidence and understanding of the issue, myths and misconceptions nevertheless abound. The authors of this article – practitioners and academics with extensive experience in the field – aim to dispel ten of the most common misconceptions that we have enco…
Politiken des Lebens – ein Lehr- und Ausstellungsprojekt in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie
Bibliographie: Ludwig, Gundula/Schulz, Philipp: Politiken des Lebens – ein Lehr- und Ausstellungsprojekt in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2-2020, S. 149-152. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v29i2.29
Navigating vulnerabilities and masculinities
In dominant global conceptions of conflict-related sexual violence, the experiences of male survivors, if attended to at all, have thus far almost exclusively been analysed in terms of vulnerabilities. Drawing on empirical evidence from two different cases (Uganda and Croatia), in this article we argue that essentializing and static generalizations of ‘emasculation’ fail to do justice to the complexity of male survivors’ experiences. We show that…
Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence
Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are remarkably underexplored, and male survivors' experiences remain particularly overlooked. This reality is poignant in northern Uganda, where sexual violence against men during the early stages of the conflict was geographically widespread, yet now accounts of those incidents are not just silenced and neglected locally but also widely abs…
Queering explanatory frameworks for wartime sexual violence against men
In this article we argue that prevalent explanatory frameworks of sexual violence against men primarily pursue one line of inquiry, explaining its occurrence as exclusively strategic and systematic, based on heteronormative and homophobic assumptions about violence, gender and sexualities. Feminist IR scholarship has significantly complexified our understanding of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), documenting its multiple forms and causes …
Towards Inclusive Gender in Transitional Justice
While gender perspectives have become a burgeoning focus of analysis in transitional justice, the dominant conceptualization of 'gender' in such processes is effectively an exclusive one. As a result, careful consideration for the roles of masculinities and for the experiences of sexual and gender minorities remains strikingly absent. To engage with these blind-spots, in this article I initiate a move towards a more inclusive understanding of gen…
Quasi-experimental research designs as a tool for assessing the impact of transitional justice instruments
How can we assess the impact of transitional justice mechanisms? Despite the global proliferation of transitional justice processes and the expansion of the research field, a persistent lack of certainty regarding the impact of these instruments remains. In particular, a profound understanding of how methodologically to account for the political, societal, communal and individual effects of transitional justice processes remains arguably limited.…
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
Recognizing research participants' fluid positionalities in (post-)conflict zones
This article re-conceptualizes the highly ambivalent relationships between researchers and research participants in conflict zones, with a focus on recognizing respondents' multiple and fluid positionalities. Standardized and dominant approaches to qualitative research are largely based on essentialist and infantilized portrayals of research participants and neo-colonial assumptions regarding the research relationship: informants are presumed to …
Navigating vulnerabilities and masculinities
In dominant global conceptions of conflict-related sexual violence, the experiences of male survivors, if attended to at all, have thus far almost exclusively been analysed in terms of vulnerabilities. Drawing on empirical evidence from two different cases (Uganda and Croatia), in this article we argue that essentializing and static generalizations of ‘emasculation’ fail to do justice to the complexity of male survivors’ experiences. We show that…
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict
In this article, we nuance the relationships between political agency, victimhood, and gender during armed conflicts. Dominant narratives often spotlight individuals as either passive victims or active agents. These representations are especially pronounced for sexual violence against women in conflict, where gendered conceptions of victimhood and agency remain particularly salient. Recent scholarship challenges this dichotomized way of thinking,…
Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence
Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are remarkably underexplored, and male survivors' experiences remain particularly overlooked. This reality is poignant in northern Uganda, where sexual violence against men during the early stages of the conflict was geographically widespread, yet now accounts of those incidents are not just silenced and neglected locally but also widely abs…
The “ethical loneliness” of male sexual violence survivors in Northern Uganda
In this article, I explore the gendered silencing of conflict-related sexual violence against men and of male survivors’ lived realities in Northern Uganda using the frame of masculinities. Utilizing Stauffer’s conceptual framework of “ethical loneliness,” I elucidate how male survivors’ experiences of sexual violence are characterized by various layers of externally imposed silences by different actors and institutions often over decades. I demo…
Displacement from gendered personhood
Journal Article Displacement from gendered personhood: sexual violence and masculinities in northern Uganda Get access Philipp Schulz Philipp Schulz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 5, September 2018, Pages 1101–1119, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiy146 Published: 01 September 2018 Article history Accepted: 11 July 2018 Published: 01 September 2018
Love and Care in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda
Dominant storylines about armed conflicts and rebel groups, such as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group in Uganda, typically focus on violence, suffering, harm, and abuse. Without a doubt, life within insurgency groups, including in the LRA, is characterized by immense social suffering, typically portrayed to be beyond the pale of humanity. Yet, what of the connections of compassion, joy, love, and care that emerged in the context of coh…
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers - Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines
Researching sensitive topics often carries immediate effects on researchers, yet discussions about the emotional and psychological impacts of conducting this type of research remain rare. In recent years, debates begun to emerge about the emotional and psychological toll that qualitative field-based research on violence in general, and on gender-based violence (GBV) in particular, can have on those conducting this research. Most of the existing s…
Queering explanatory frameworks for wartime sexual violence against men
In this article we argue that prevalent explanatory frameworks of sexual violence against men primarily pursue one line of inquiry, explaining its occurrence as exclusively strategic and systematic, based on heteronormative and homophobic assumptions about violence, gender and sexualities. Feminist IR scholarship has significantly complexified our understanding of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), documenting its multiple forms and causes …
Towards Inclusive Gender in Transitional Justice
While gender perspectives have become a burgeoning focus of analysis in transitional justice, the dominant conceptualization of 'gender' in such processes is effectively an exclusive one. As a result, careful consideration for the roles of masculinities and for the experiences of sexual and gender minorities remains strikingly absent. To engage with these blind-spots, in this article I initiate a move towards a more inclusive understanding of gen…
Broadening the scope but reasserting male privilege? Potential patriarchal pitfalls of inclusive approaches to gender-based violence
Sexual violence against men and boys (SVAMB) in conflict has in recent years become a prominent topic in research and on the international policy stage. Simultaneously, there has been a slow but steady increase of attention to gendered harms against persons of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). These shifts, albeit slow and belated, are in many ways welcome and overdue. However, whil…
Quasi-experimental research designs as a tool for assessing the impact of transitional justice instruments
How can we assess the impact of transitional justice mechanisms? Despite the global proliferation of transitional justice processes and the expansion of the research field, a persistent lack of certainty regarding the impact of these instruments remains. In particular, a profound understanding of how methodologically to account for the political, societal, communal and individual effects of transitional justice processes remains arguably limited.…
Examining Male Wartime Rape Survivors’ Perspectives on Justice in Northern Uganda
This article examines how male survivors of wartime sexual violence in Northern Uganda conceptualize justice. Whereas recent years have witnessed increasing consideration for redressing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence against women, specific attention to justice for male-directed sexual violence remains absent. Drawing on the empirically-grounded perspectives of 46 male survivors, this article incorporates the seldom-heard voice…
The 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' in northern Uganda and beyond
This paper puts forward the framework of the 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' as a conceptual, analytical, and heuristic tool to comprehend better holistic dynamics in humanitarian and post-conflict contexts, where a variety of different actors offer various services and forms of assistance. It seeks to emphasise relations and interactions between service providers and intended beneficiaries in settings where there are often numerous dif…
Researching conflict-related sexual violence
March 2019. It was a brisk spring day in Toronto. We were having lunch in the crowded food court opposite the conference hotel. This was the first time that we had sat down and openly spoken about
Sexual violence against men in global politics
Sexual violence against men is committed more frequently than is commonly assumed. Yet despite growing evidence regarding the perpetration of these crimes, much remains unknown about their dynamics. Indeed, as the editors of this new volume note, ‘male victims of this form of violence have been overwhelmingly rendered invisible, both in research and policy papers’ (p. 2). This observation is both the premise and starting-point of this book, as we…
How Locally Owned and Sustainable Are Victims’ Groups in Postconflict and Transitional Settings? Reflections from Northern Uganda
Victims’ groups in postconflict settings have gained increasing attention in transitional justice scholarship and programming, as entry points for victims to engage with external transitional justice mechanisms, or as vehicles to facilitate healing, recovery or justice making on the micro level. These groups are often presented in terms of local ownership, victims’ participation and self-reliance. Based on work in Uganda, I have previously argued…
Pieces of the Same Puzzle
As we mark 25 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the place of this landmark agenda on the global political stage has never been more fragile, nor more fraught. In the same breath, the importance of paying careful and critical attention to men, masculinities, and their positioning in and relationship to the WPS agenda — and peace and security writ large — has never been more…
Recognizing the agency of forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics
In recent years, scholarship and policy reports have slowly attended to the lived realities of forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). However, these emerging discourses are typically characterized by a violation-centric view that focuses on queer migrants’ vulnerabilities and experiences of victimization. Yet, what remains strikingly absent from existing research and…
Developing Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past
This Note documents the motivations, process and challenges in developing the 10 Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland. The Principles are the outcome of a targeted intervention by a group of women from civil society and academia in Ireland and the UK to challenge the exclusions of ongoing negotiations to agree on a process to deal with the past. The Principles were shaped by a small-scale consultation with…
Evelyn Amony. I Am Evelyn Amony
I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army is an autobiographic account by Evelyn Amony, who spent more than ten years inside the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel gr
Discussing community-based outreach activities by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Due to its remote location, language barriers and the overall complexity of judicial trials, the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are generally not well known nor positively perceived in Rwanda. In response to such criticism, the ICTR pioneered in setting up an outreach programme, mandated to improve the Rwandan population's understanding of the work of the Tribunal, and to facilitate more positive attitudes to…
Luk pe Coo,’ or Compensation as Dowry? Gendered Reflections on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men
This Note explores a divergent viewpoint on reparations represented by a small group of male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Northern Uganda. According to this perspective, reparative justice measures equal the payment of dowry, locally conceptualized as luk. In this reading, reparations, if regarded as dowry, further cement survivors’ perceived inferior subject positioning in a gendered manifestation and as previously initiated …
The “ethical loneliness” of male sexual violence survivors in Northern Uganda
In this article, I explore the gendered silencing of conflict-related sexual violence against men and of male survivors’ lived realities in Northern Uganda using the frame of masculinities. Utilizing Stauffer’s conceptual framework of “ethical loneliness,” I elucidate how male survivors’ experiences of sexual violence are characterized by various layers of externally imposed silences by different actors and institutions often over decades. I demo…
Displacement from gendered personhood
Journal Article Displacement from gendered personhood: sexual violence and masculinities in northern Uganda Get access Philipp Schulz Philipp Schulz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 5, September 2018, Pages 1101–1119, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiy146 Published: 01 September 2018 Article history Accepted: 11 July 2018 Published: 01 September 2018
Towards Inclusive Gender in Transitional Justice
While gender perspectives have become a burgeoning focus of analysis in transitional justice, the dominant conceptualization of 'gender' in such processes is effectively an exclusive one. As a result, careful consideration for the roles of masculinities and for the experiences of sexual and gender minorities remains strikingly absent. To engage with these blind-spots, in this article I initiate a move towards a more inclusive understanding of gen…
Quasi-experimental research designs as a tool for assessing the impact of transitional justice instruments
How can we assess the impact of transitional justice mechanisms? Despite the global proliferation of transitional justice processes and the expansion of the research field, a persistent lack of certainty regarding the impact of these instruments remains. In particular, a profound understanding of how methodologically to account for the political, societal, communal and individual effects of transitional justice processes remains arguably limited.…
Avoidance Behavior Is an Independent Indicator of Poorer On-road Driving Skills in Older Adults
This study suggest that avoidance behavior is an independent indicator of impaired driving skills in older drivers. Our results argue against the assumption that avoidance behavior may be a reasonable strategy for safe traffic participation. Longitudinal studies are urgently needed to get more evidence on safety aspects of avoidance behavior
Examining Male Wartime Rape Survivors’ Perspectives on Justice in Northern Uganda
This article examines how male survivors of wartime sexual violence in Northern Uganda conceptualize justice. Whereas recent years have witnessed increasing consideration for redressing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence against women, specific attention to justice for male-directed sexual violence remains absent. Drawing on the empirically-grounded perspectives of 46 male survivors, this article incorporates the seldom-heard voice…
Sexual violence against men in global politics
Sexual violence against men is committed more frequently than is commonly assumed. Yet despite growing evidence regarding the perpetration of these crimes, much remains unknown about their dynamics. Indeed, as the editors of this new volume note, ‘male victims of this form of violence have been overwhelmingly rendered invisible, both in research and policy papers’ (p. 2). This observation is both the premise and starting-point of this book, as we…
From ‘It Rarely Happens’ to ‘It’s Worse for Men’
Sexual violence against men and boys in conflict and displacement has garnered increasing attention over the past decade and has been recognised in UN Security Resolution 2467. Despite increased evidence and understanding of the issue, myths and misconceptions nevertheless abound. The authors of this article – practitioners and academics with extensive experience in the field – aim to dispel ten of the most common misconceptions that we have enco…
Politiken des Lebens – ein Lehr- und Ausstellungsprojekt in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie
Bibliographie: Ludwig, Gundula/Schulz, Philipp: Politiken des Lebens – ein Lehr- und Ausstellungsprojekt in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2-2020, S. 149-152. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v29i2.29
Navigating vulnerabilities and masculinities
In dominant global conceptions of conflict-related sexual violence, the experiences of male survivors, if attended to at all, have thus far almost exclusively been analysed in terms of vulnerabilities. Drawing on empirical evidence from two different cases (Uganda and Croatia), in this article we argue that essentializing and static generalizations of ‘emasculation’ fail to do justice to the complexity of male survivors’ experiences. We show that…
Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence
Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are remarkably underexplored, and male survivors' experiences remain particularly overlooked. This reality is poignant in northern Uganda, where sexual violence against men during the early stages of the conflict was geographically widespread, yet now accounts of those incidents are not just silenced and neglected locally but also widely abs…
Queering explanatory frameworks for wartime sexual violence against men
In this article we argue that prevalent explanatory frameworks of sexual violence against men primarily pursue one line of inquiry, explaining its occurrence as exclusively strategic and systematic, based on heteronormative and homophobic assumptions about violence, gender and sexualities. Feminist IR scholarship has significantly complexified our understanding of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), documenting its multiple forms and causes …
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Researching conflict-related sexual violence
March 2019. It was a brisk spring day in Toronto. We were having lunch in the crowded food court opposite the conference hotel. This was the first time that we had sat down and openly spoken about
Recognizing research participants' fluid positionalities in (post-)conflict zones
This article re-conceptualizes the highly ambivalent relationships between researchers and research participants in conflict zones, with a focus on recognizing respondents' multiple and fluid positionalities. Standardized and dominant approaches to qualitative research are largely based on essentialist and infantilized portrayals of research participants and neo-colonial assumptions regarding the research relationship: informants are presumed to …
Broadening the scope but reasserting male privilege? Potential patriarchal pitfalls of inclusive approaches to gender-based violence
Sexual violence against men and boys (SVAMB) in conflict has in recent years become a prominent topic in research and on the international policy stage. Simultaneously, there has been a slow but steady increase of attention to gendered harms against persons of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). These shifts, albeit slow and belated, are in many ways welcome and overdue. However, whil…
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict
In this article, we nuance the relationships between political agency, victimhood, and gender during armed conflicts. Dominant narratives often spotlight individuals as either passive victims or active agents. These representations are especially pronounced for sexual violence against women in conflict, where gendered conceptions of victimhood and agency remain particularly salient. Recent scholarship challenges this dichotomized way of thinking,…
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
The 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' in northern Uganda and beyond
This paper puts forward the framework of the 'marketplace of post-conflict assistance' as a conceptual, analytical, and heuristic tool to comprehend better holistic dynamics in humanitarian and post-conflict contexts, where a variety of different actors offer various services and forms of assistance. It seeks to emphasise relations and interactions between service providers and intended beneficiaries in settings where there are often numerous dif…
How Locally Owned and Sustainable Are Victims’ Groups in Postconflict and Transitional Settings? Reflections from Northern Uganda
Victims’ groups in postconflict settings have gained increasing attention in transitional justice scholarship and programming, as entry points for victims to engage with external transitional justice mechanisms, or as vehicles to facilitate healing, recovery or justice making on the micro level. These groups are often presented in terms of local ownership, victims’ participation and self-reliance. Based on work in Uganda, I have previously argued…
Give Me a Sign
Our findings revealed an advantage of concrete double-coded symbols over conventional symbols and therefore strongly suggest the implementation of concrete double-coded signs to support older people living with ADD
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