Shouting from the Bottom of the Well The Impact of International Trials for Wartime Rape on Women's Agency

Mertus, Julie

doi:10.1080/1461674032000165950

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“…Analyses of these records, however, suggest that when women testify about their own suffering, their evidence tends to be constrained by the trial or commission process which limits what women can speak of (Kelsall and Stepakoff 2007;Mertus 2004;Ross 2003), or re-interprets their evidence as tales of sexual violence (Ross 2003;Franke 2006). Further, the process of testifying tends to construct women as a particular type of victim whose suffering denotes a communal narrative of pain (Ross 2003; see also Franke 2006).…”

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confidence: 96%

Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’

2009

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One of the most significant shifts in current thinking on war and gender is the recognition that rape in wartime is not a simple by-product of war, but often a planned and targeted policy. For many feminists 'rape as a weapon of war' provides a way to articulate the systematic, pervasive, and orchestrated nature of wartime sexual violence that marks it as integral rather than incidental to war. This recognition of rape as a weapon of war has taken on legal significance at the Rwandan and Yugoslav Tribunals where rape has been prosecuted as a crime against humanity and genocide. In this paper, I examine how the Rwanda Tribunal's record of judgments conceives of rape enacted as an instrument of the genocide. I consider in particular how the Tribunal's conception of 'rape as a weapon of war' shapes what can be known about sexual violence and gender in the Rwandan genocide and what cannot, the categories of victims legally recognised and those that are not, and the questions pursued, and those foreclosed, about the patterns of violence before and during the genocide.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’

2009

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“…RCNE argues for 'a flexible approach', that only the victim knows what she might need. However, it may take some time to discover these needs in the trauma following rape, including 'wartime rape' (Mertus, 2004). The goal is to enable and empower the victim to become aware of her own needs, and to meet those needs.…”

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Stopping rape

Lombardo¹,

Francis²,

Sugarman³

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“…The understanding of rape as a "collective" and often exclusive ethnic group right, as opposed to the violation of an individual woman's right, has been very problematic. When rape becomes a crime against an ethnic identity it reinforces securitization discourses and leaves women retraumatized by the reparation experience as conflict is once again waged on their bodies (Mertus, 2004).…”

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Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights

Marchetti¹,

Tocci²

2013

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Shouting from the Bottom of the Well The Impact of International Trials for Wartime Rape on Women's Agency

Cited by 96 publications

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Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’

Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’

Stopping rape

Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights

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