This document presents a study on conflict related violence against women transforming transition. By comparatively assessing 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-time harms impacting women. The “violences” that occur in conflict beyond strategic rapeare first identified. Employing both a disaggregated and an aggregated approach, relations between forms of violence within and across each context’s pre-, mid-, and postconflict phase are then assessed, identifying connections and distinctions in violence. 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-conflict transitional justice. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict, a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice is to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during and after conflict.

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Studies

Violence against women// Violence in armed conflict//Sexual violence//Physical violence//Rap//