ABSTRACT
This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments. The chapters are organized around three main themes: the continuities between conflict sexual violence and post-conflict insecurity; the troubling category of "victim" and its representation in post-conflict settings; and the international contexts – such as international programming, aid and justice interventions – that shape how conflict sexual violence is addressed. The authors come to the topic from various academic disciplines - anthropology, gender studies, law, and psychology - and from different non-academic contexts, including civil society organizations in affected regions, and policy and activist organizations in the Global North. Collectively the chapters in this volume offer complex and detailed analysis of some of the debates and dynamics shaping contemporary understandings of conflict sexual violence, highlighting, in turn, new insights and emerging topics on which further research and advocacy is needed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |39 pages
Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: Situating International Agendas and Their African Contexts
chapter |25 pages
Seeing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies
part |25 pages
Sexual Violence and Conflict: Civil Society Perspectives on Patterns, Causes, and Solutions
chapter |15 pages
Sexual Violence Patterns, Causes, and Possible Solutions
chapter |8 pages
Sexual Violence Patterns, Causes, and Possible Solutions
part |61 pages
Sexual Violence and Harm: From Conflict to Post-Conflict Societies
part |61 pages
Representing Harms and the Trouble with (Victim) Categories
chapter |14 pages
Sexual Violence, Female Agencies, and Sexual Consent
part |55 pages
The Gender of Security
chapter |15 pages
Security Sector Reform in Africa
part |30 pages
Post-Conflict Development and International Agendas