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Conflict-related sexual violence and the policy implications of recent research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2015

Elisabeth Jean Wood
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Abstract

Scholars increasingly document different forms of conflict-related sexual violence, their distinct causes, and their sharply varying deployment by armed organizations. In this paper, I first summarize recent research on this variation, emphasizing findings that contradict or complicate popular beliefs. I then discuss distinct interpretations of the claim that such violence is part of a continuum of violence between peace and war. After analyzing recent research on the internal dynamics of armed organizations, I suggest that widespread rape often occurs as a practice rather than as a strategy. Finally, I advance some principles to guide policy in light of recent research.

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conflict-related sexual violencerapesexual torturecivil war violencecauses of sexual violencearmed conflict
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Sexual violence in armed conflict: A polymorphous reality
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 96 , Issue 894: Sexual violence in armed conflict , June 2014 , pp. 457 - 478
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Copyright © icrc 2015 

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8 Ibid., Table 2. The article does not report the prevalence of intimate-partner forced or coerced sex during the conflict (nor does it report the rate of forced or coerced sex suffered by men in the year after the crisis).

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10 This suggestion appears to be true for a few areas controlled by some rebel organizations, but the evidence is anecdotal. See E. J. Wood, above note 4.

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13 Estimates of the number of female Muslim Bosnian rape victims range from 12,000 to 60,000 (see E. J. Wood, above note 2), while an estimate of the number of male Muslim Bosnian civilians killed based on the best available data is about 24,000. The number of male Muslim Bosnian civilians killed is roughly estimated as follows: of the nearly 100,000 people killed, approximately 40% were civilian, 90% were male, and two thirds were Muslim; the estimate (my calculations) assumes that those categories can simply be multiplied (problematic but defensible for a rough estimate). The data come from Patrick Ball, Ewa Tabeau and Philip Verwimp, The Bosnian Book of Dead: Assessment of the Database (Full Report), Households in Conflict Network Research Design Note 5, 17 June 2007, available at: https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rdn5.pdf.

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15 D. K. Cohen, above note 2.

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17 For a detailed discussion and an alternative approach, see F. Gutiérrez Sanín and E. J. Wood, above note 12. See also Jule Kruger and Christian Davenport, “Understanding the Logics of Violence: A Victim-Centered, Multi-Dimensional Approach to Concept and Measurement”, unpublished paper, University of Michigan, July 2013.

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39 E. J. Wood, above note 4.

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50 Ibid. One implication is that the prevalence of rape could in principle be low without relying on intense socialization or hierarchical discipline – namely, when sufficiently many combatants have their own norms against rape so that the dynamics of peer pressure enforce those norms. However, given the social psychological processes described above, such organizations are probably quite rare.

51 Ibid.

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55 A. Hoover Green, above note 45.

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59 Ibid.; E. J. Wood, above note 23; F. Gutiérrez Sanín and E. J. Wood, above note 12.

60 Of course, in a broader meaning often used in sociology, all violence is a “practice”. Here the term refers to unordered, not ordered, violence.

61 For a synthesis of this sizeable literature, see E. J. Wood, above note 4. On conformity in war, see Frésard, Jean-Jacques, The Roots of Behaviour in War: A Survey of the Literature, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 2004Google Scholar, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0854.pdf.

62 Commanders are of course responsible for violence that was unordered but carried out by troops under their effective command even in the absence of orders. The common response of military and political leaders to accusations of strategic rape by their forces is to claim that the troops were not under their control, but this can be countered by other indicators of control. See E. J. Wood, above note 16.

63 See ibid.; E. J. Wood, above note 23.

64 E. J. Wood, above note 16.

65 E. J. Wood, above note 23. This does not imply, however, that rape and multiple-perpetrator rape will occur in all such campaigns: for example, in Sri Lanka, the LTTE appears to have not or rarely engaged in rape while forcibly displacing Muslims from the north (E. J. Wood, above note 4).

66 M. Leiby, above note 40; M. Leiby, above note 53.

67 In another paper, she identifies “hot spots” where more rape occurs than is predicted by factors that she argues facilitate opportunistic violence; thus, rape in those districts is, she argues, strategic. See Michele Leiby and Kimberly Proctor, The Geography of Wartime Sexual Violence: Identifying “Hot Spots”, unpublished paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, 1–4 April 2012.

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70 See ibid., pp. 11–12, and the source cited therein, “Islamic State (ISIS) Releases Pamphlet on Female Slaves”, Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor of the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, 4 December 2014, available at: www.memrijttm.org/islamic-state-isis-releases-pamphlet-on-female-slaves.html.

71 D. K. Cohen, above note 31; D. K. Cohen, “Explaining Rape during Civil War”, above note 2.

72 Of course, when rape is ordered or encouraged as a means to build cohesion, it would be a strategy, not a practice.

73 Ibid.

74 D. K. Cohen, A. Hoover Green and E. J. Wood, above note 23.

75 M. Eriksson Baaz and M. Stern, “Why Do Soldiers Rape?”, above note 58.

76 Ibid., p. 497.

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78 X. Agirre Aranbaru, above note 57; A. Hoover Green, above note 40; E. J. Wood, above note 4; E. J. Wood, above note 16.

79 Kimberly Theidon, Kelly Phenicie and Elizabeth Murray, “Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: State of the Field and Lessons Learned from USIP Grantmaking”, Peaceworks No. 76, United States Institute of Peace, September 2011.

80 M. Eriksson Baaz and M. Stern, “Why Do Soldiers Rape?”, above note 58; J. A. Turchik and S. M. Wilson, above note 77.

81 See Chris Dolan, “Letting Go of the Gender Binary: Charting New Pathways of Humanitarian intervention on Gender-Based Violence”, in this issue of the Review.

82 See above note 1.

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86 M. Leiby, above note 40.

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90 M. Eriksson Baaz and M. Stern, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?, above note 58.

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92 Michael Broache, The Effects of Prosecutions on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict during the ‘ICC Era,’ 2002–2009, paper presented at the Workshop on Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: New Research Frontiers, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2–3 September 2014.

93 See Maria Eriksson Baaz, Maria Stern and Chris Dolan, Poking Heads Above the Parapet: Theorizing Sexuality and Violence in Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, The Policy Implications of Recent Research on Wartime Sexual Violence, papers presented at the Workshop on Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: New Research Frontiers, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2–3 September 2014.

94 M. Eriksson Baaz and M. Stern, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?, above note 58.

95 D. K. Cohen, above note 2; M. Eriksson Baaz and M. Stern, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?, above note 58; E. J. Wood, above note 16; M. Eriksson Baaz, M. Stern and C. Dolan, above note 93.

96 E. J. Wood, above note 4; E. J. Wood, above note 16.

97 N. J. Mitchell, above note 40, p. 50.