Conflict-related sexual violence : international law, local responses / edited by Tonia St. Germain and Susan Dewey.

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 activis...

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Other Authors: Dewey, Susan (Editor), St. Germain, Tonia (Tonia Prisca), 1960- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, [2012]
Edition:1st edition.
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Summary: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 internatinoal responses to conflict-related sexual violence through anlyses 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 -- Publisher description
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 210 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index.
ISBN:1565495055
9781565495050
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.