ABSTRACT
In "Justice matters", Hope Ferdowsian of Physicians for Human Rights points out that sexual violence during conflict is a historic and global issue beginning to get sustained international attention. While she reminds readers that sexual violence survivors need to be found and treated, she stresses that progress in reducing this horrible crime can only be achieved through the prosecution of perpetrators, ending impunity while respecting the rights of survivors. The major argument made by Goode is that the pattern of social change described in the mid-twentieth century as "industrialization" and in the early twenty-first century as "globalization" weakens the traditional source of authority in the family and society and enhances the power of females and youth. In his follow up to Goode's classic, Therborn points out that the forms of change of power relations in families has not been uniform: some have followed the pattern described by Goode, some have reverted to traditional forms, and others have created new arrangements.
