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Conflict-related violence against women, transforming transition, Aisling Swaine

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Conflict-related violence against women

bibliography

Aisling Swaine

transforming transition

"By comparatively assessing violence against women in 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-related violence against women. Employing a disaggregated and aggregated approach, the book first documents violence against women in each context's pre-, mid- and post-conflict phase, and then assesses the relations between the violence in each phase on an aggregated basis. Through this approach, 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-justice mechanisms. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict, a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice processes are to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during conflict"--, Provided by publisher"By comparatively assessing violence against women in 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- related violence against women. Employing a disaggregated and aggregated approach, the book first documents violence against women in each context's pre-, mid- and post-conflict phase, and then assesses the relations between the violence in each phase on an aggregated basis"--, Provided by publisher

Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part II. Approaches to understanding conflict-related violence against women -- 2. Historic prevalence versus 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 : transforming transition