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Silenced Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence (Hardcover)
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Silenced Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence (Hardcover)
Series: Post-Conflict Law and Justice
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The condemnation of wartime sexual violence as a gross violation of
human rights has received widespread support. While rape and other
forms of sexual violence have attracted considerable local and
international attention, this often excludes wartime sexual
violence among women belonging to so-called 'perpetrator' war-torn
nations. This book explores the silence surrounding women's
experiences of wartime sexual violence within academic, legal and
public discourses. Olivera Simic argues that the international
criminal law and feminist legal discourse on wartime sexual
violence can construct a problematic victim hierarchy that excludes
and misrecognises certain women's experiences of sexual violence
during and after armed conflict. The book focuses on the
experiences of Bosnian Serb women, where the collapse of the former
Yugoslavia led to brutal war and gross human rights violations
throughout the 1990s. Two decades after the war, women in Bosnia
and Herzegovina are still facing the legacies of the violence in
the 1990s. Through this case Simic argues that while all women
survivors of rape face problems of stigma, shame and lack of
political visibility, their legal and symbolic status differ
according to their ethno-national identity. Drawing on interviews
with Bosnian Serb women survivors of rape in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, feminist activists, local media, documentary and
archival sources, the book examines 'post-conflict justice' as it
is seen, lived and interpreted by women who belong to 'perpetrator'
nations and will be of great interest and use to researchers,
students and practitioners within post-conflict law and justice,
international criminal law, security studies and gender studies.
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