Gender and war : international and transitional justice perspectives
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 11296
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Intersentia
- ISBN
- 9781780686868
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- In this edited collection, Mouthaan provides a critical space for an interdisciplinary discussion about gender legacies of international criminal justice whilst also adding other voices of men and children. Emerging initially from a series of conference at, inter alia, Warwick University, the contributors took part in a series of events at which the themes were sharpened by Jurasz & Mouthaan. Several contributors, including Mouthaan, were delegates at the Global Summit to Prevent Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (2014); the research in the book was both a contributor to, and informed by, this international initiative.
This book centres on international and transitional justice responses to some of the gendered experiences of armed conflict. It broadens understandings of armed conflict and Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and interrogates approaches to remedying harms arising from CRSV in post-conflict situations. This is achieved through four complementary parts: gendered experiences of armed conflict, women’s involvement in armed conflict, gender in international criminal justice and transitional justice mechanisms.
CRSV has received much scholarly attention which aims to provide meaningful outcomes and responses for its victims. However, other voices also narrating experiences of CRSV have emerged: men, boys and girls. Contemporary understandings of armed conflict show us that women’s roles in armed conflict surpass those of passive actors, including as perpetrators. These different voices and narratives are the overarching theme of this edited collection which breaks new ground in the analysis and development of ICL.
Mouthaan’s chapter focuses on conflict-related experiences of children and warns against an overly simplistic narrative that ignores the gendered experiences of children in armed conflict. The risk that girls will find themselves at the margins of legal protections if the dominant narratives focus on either boys or women; in this way the chapter is paradigmatic of the objectives of the book.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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