ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a brief survey of the literature, maps contributions and disagreements relating to the patterns of wartime sexual violence; the causes of wartime sexual violence; the persons implicated as perpetrators and victims of conflict-related sexual violence. It argues that borders of sexual violence within and without conflict. The thread of scholarly inquiry into wartime sexual violence revealed its existence in a dual sense, both by documenting and politicizing it. Overlapping thread took the political character of wartime sexual violence as its starting point, and began to elaborate on and fine-tune earlier explanations. The field came to recognize a broader spectrum of persons affected by wartime sexual violence, from male survivors and children born of rape to those exploited and abused by the peacekeepers deployed as their ostensible protectors. The thread has taken up the concern by rethinking the basic connections between sexual violence and conflict.
