Variations and Violences: What counts as conflict-related violence against women? A Lunch and Learn Event with Dr. Aisling Swaine
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Variations and Violences: What counts as conflict-related violence against women? A Lunch and Learn Event with Dr. Aisling Swaine
March 19, 2015
12:00-1:30pm
Metropolitan Building Room 5183
Please join the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict and speaker, Dr. Aisling Swaine of George Washington University, for a lunchtime lecture at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution on March 19th.
Dr. Swaine will be presenting the paper, "Variations and Violences: What counts as conflict-related violence against women?"
What ‘counts’ as conflict-related gendered violence under international law and within the international political arena is increasingly being examined and contested. On the one hand, is a narrowing down by emerging international legal and policy frameworks towards the strategic sexualised violence and particularly the penetrative rape experience. On the other, is a body of feminist legal theory and broader scholarship that seeks to counter this tendency and garner acknowledgement of the broader range and variation to violence related to conflict that is experienced by women. On the basis of empirical work in three case study sites, this paper makes visible wider forms of violence that women experience as part of, alongside, and distinct to strategic rape. It contrasts these findings with emerging frameworks of the UN Security Council that focus on sexual violence. The paper aims to address some of the blind spots that exist in empirical knowledge about women’s experiences of conflict-related violence and demonstrate how these play into the politics of a body such as the UN Security Council.
We hope you will join us at noon on Thursday, March 19. A light lunch will be provided.
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