Swaine, Aisling 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5782-5084
(2018)
Conflict-related violence against women: transforming transition.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
ISBN 9781107106345
Abstract
By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions (Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste), Conflict-Related Violence against Women empirically and theoretically expands current understanding of the form and nature of conflict-time harms impacting women. The 'violences' that occur in conflict beyond strategic rape are first identified. Employing both a disaggregated and an aggregated approach, relations between forms of violence within and across each context's pre-, mid- and post-conflict phase are then assessed, identifying connections and distinctions in violence. Swaine highlights a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women than is currently acknowledged. She identifies a range of forces that simultaneously push open and close down spaces for addressing violence against women through post-conflict transitional justice. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict, a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice is to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during and after conflict.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JX International law |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2017 16:09 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2025 19:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86352 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
