Conflict-Related Violence Against Women

By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions (Liberia northern Ireland and timor-leste) conflict-related violence against women empirically and theoretically expands current understanding of the form and nature of conflict-time harms impacting women. The ''violence'' That occur in conflict beyond strategic rape are first identified. Employing both a disaggregated and an aggregated approach relations between forms of violence within and across each context''s Pre- Mid- and post-conflict Phase are then assessed identifying connection and distinctions in violence. Swaine highlights a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women than is currently acknowledged. She identifies a range of forces that simultaneously push open and close down spaces for addressing violence against women through post-conflict transitional justice. The book proposes that in the aftermath of conflict a transformation rather than a transition is required if justice is to play a role in preventing gendered violence before conflict and its appearance during and after conflict.