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Rape during Civil War (Hardcover)
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Rape during Civil War (Hardcover)
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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. 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.
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