Rape during Civil War

Dara Kay Cohen

ISBN 10: 1501702513 / ISBN 13: 9781501702518

Verlag: Cornell University Press Jul 2016, 2016

Beschreibung

Neuware - Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781501702518

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Rape during Civil War
• Verlag: Cornell University Press Jul 2016
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1501702513
• ISBN-13: 9781501702518
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 236B x 159 H x 28 T Millimeter Breite: 236 mm, Höhe: 159 mm, Tiefe: 28 mm
• Gewicht: 528 Gramm

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Results from the book lay the groundwork for the systematic analysis of an understudied form of civilian abuse. The book will also be useful to policymakers and organizations seeking to understand and to mitigate the horrors of wartime rape.

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012. Cohen also conducted extensive fieldwork, including interviews with perpetrators of wartime rape, in three postconflict counties, finding that rape was widespread in the civil wars of the Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste but was far less common during El Salvador's civil war.

Cohen argues that armed groups that recruit their fighters through the random abduction of strangers use rape-and especially gang rape-to create bonds of loyalty and trust between soldiers. The statistical evidence confirms that armed groups that recruit using abduction are more likely to perpetrate rape than are groups that use voluntary methods, even controlling for other confounding factors. Important findings from the fieldwork-across cases-include that rape, even when it occurs on a massive scale, rarely seems to be directly ordered. Instead, former fighters describe participating in rape as a violent socialization practice that served to cut ties with fighters’ past lives and to signal their commitment to their new groups.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dara Kay Cohen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her earlier work on wartime sexual violence has received awards from the American Political Science Association, including the Heinz Eulau prize for the best article published in the American Political Science Review.