Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ragnhild Nordås (0000-0003-3087-297X, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)), Dara Kay Cohen (0000-0001-5766-8528, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 193-211 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719-102620 |
| OpenAlex | W3163331791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 91 |
This article reviews the remarkable growth in empirical literature in political science on wartime sexual violence against civilians, including rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage, and other forms. Early work, motivated by ongoing conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, tended to portray these forms of violence as inevitable, ubiquitous, and either opportunistic or strategic. However, recent literature and new data sources have documented substantial variation in sexual violence across countries, conflicts, perpetrators, and victims and survivors. Building on this observed variation, scholars have developed and tested a wealth of theories about when, where, why, and under what conditions sexual violence occurs as well as its consequences. We highlight the core findings from the literature, explain the key debates among experts, and explore several avenues for future research. We conclude by detailing what the study of wartime sexual violence—both the findings and the research process—offers to a broader set of political science scholars
Criminology · Political science · Politics · Sexual violence · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
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Beyond a 'survivor-centred approach' to conflict-related sexual violence
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Exposure to wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Patterns and dynamics of conflict-related sexual violence
The impacts of armed conflict on human development
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Confessions to intimate violence
Years of Solitude Revisited
Rebel Sexual Violence and UN Targeted Sanctions
Desperate Measures
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Gendering agency in transitional justice
Analysis of the Colombian Constitutional Court's Transformative Approach to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem
Exploring the nature, causes and consequences of school-based violence in Cameroon
Sexual violence in the shadows
From childhood abduction to adulthood
No Heart for Sympathy ”
Ethics of Archives
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions
Social Cohesion, Economic Security, and Forced displacement in the Long-run
Ideology and the Implicit Authorization of Violence as Policy
Dissemination and Implementation Gaps in Policy Efforts to Prevention and Responses to Female Statutory Rape
Loyalty or Accountability? Public Attitudes to Holding Soldiers Accountable for the Murder and Abuse of Civilians
EU peacebuilding’s new khaki
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Understanding Intimate Partner Violence
The gendered costs of stigma
From snapshots to panoramas
Resilience in the context ofconflict-relatedsexual violence and beyond
Women's economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence
Curating conflict-related sexual violence
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence
Wartime Sexual Violence
Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping
Agents of Atrocity
Rape during Civil War
War, Women, and Power
Association of Combatant Status and Sexual Violence With Health and Mental Health Outcomes in Postconflict Liberia
Information Effects and Human Rights Data
Looting and Rape in Wartime
Violating Peace
Strong NGOs and Weak States
Bombshell
Maneuvers
The impact of support programmes for survivors of sexual violence
Centering Human Subjects
The Islamic State's Pattern of Sexual Violence
Managing Expectations
Conflict-related sexual violence and the policy implications of recent research
Securitizing Sex
Sexual Violence Inside Rebellion
Peacekeeping Prevention
Extreme War Rape in Today’s Civil-War-Torn States
Recognizing Gender-Based Violence Against Civilian Men and Boys in Conflict Situations
Reframing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
Breaking the Spell of Silence
Sexual Violence Against Men in Armed Conflict
Rape as a Weapon of War
War Rape
Rape as a Tactic of War
The effect of sexual violence on negotiated outcomes in civil conflicts
Sexual violence and biased military interventions in civil conflict
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Peacekeepers
The second front
Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape
Estimates and Determinants of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Explaining wartime rape
Violence, toleration, or inclusion? Exploring variation in the experiences of LGBT combatants in Colombia
Variation in Sexual Violence during War
Restrained or constrained? Elections, communal conflicts, and variation in sexual violence
A latent variable approach to measuring wartime sexual violence
Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups
Commander's Dilemma
Decay or Resilience
Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence
Rebel Leader Ascension and Wartime Sexual Violence
What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”? Repertoire, Targeting, Frequency, and Technique
Rape as Genocide
The Positivist Study of Gender and International Relations
Talking to the Shameless
Conflict-related Sexual Violence and Rebel Group Fragmentation
Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts
Reevaluating Gender and IR Scholarship
The Silent Victims of Sexual Violence during War
A Gendered Imperative
Why Do Soldiers Rape? Masculinity, Violence, and Sexuality in the Armed Forces in the Congo (DRC)
The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security
Deploying Justice
The Legacy of Wartime Violence on Intimate-Partner Abuse
Wartime Sexual Violence in Guatemala and Peru
Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment
The Consequences of Contention
The Social Processes of Civil War
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict
Sexual Violence and War
Rebel Rulers
State Repression and Political Order
Of exceptions and continuities
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
Responding to sexual violence
Forced marriage as a political project
The persistence of sexual assault within the US military
Ending sexual violence in conflict
Can War Foster Cooperation
Security Forces and Sexual Violence
Dueling incentives
Sexual violence in armed conflict
A Determination of the Prevalence of Gender-based Violence among Conflict-affected Populations in East Timor
Displacement from gendered personhood
Explaining Rape during Civil War
Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering
Researching wartime rape in Eastern Congo
Rape as a Practice of War
Armed Groups and Sexual Violence
Digging in the Archives
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |