Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to sexual violence in wartime are conditional upon profound changes in legal frameworks and practices, institutions, and society at large.

Autorentext
Jelke Boesten is Senior Lecturer in Social Development and Human Security at University of Leeds, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Sexual Violence in War 3. Sexual Violence and the Reproduction of Inequalities 4. Transitional Justice, Truths, and Narratives of Violence 5. Impunity 6. Peacetime Violence 7. Sexual Violence and Post-conflict Justice