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Sexual violence during conflict

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Conflict-related sexual violence: what research shows, how 'rape as a weapon of war' is explained and contested, prosecutions, and survivors' own accounts from Bosnia, Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda and beyond.

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1. Conflict-related sexual violence and the policy implications of recent research

   Elisabeth Jean Wood · 2014 · International Review of the Red Cross

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2. Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’

   Doris E. Buss · 2009 · Feminist Legal Studies

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3. How is rape a weapon of war? Feminist International Relations, modes of critical explanation and the study of wartime sexual violence

   Paul C. Kirby · 2012 · European Journal of International Relations

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4. Feminism and Its (DIS)contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   Karen Engle · 2005 · American Journal of International Law

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5. Rape as Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC?: The Victims’ Perspective

   Anna Maedl · 2011 · Human Rights Quarterly

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6. Sexual violence in armed conflicts: research progress and remaining gaps

   Carlo Koos · 2017 · Third World Quarterly

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7. Of exceptions and continuities: theory and methodology in research on conflict-related sexual violence

   Jelke Boesten · 2017 · International Feminist Journal of Politics

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8. The enduring consequences of conflict-related sexual violence: a qualitative study of women survivors in northern Uganda

   Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik, Grace Acan, Okwir Isaac Odiya · 2022 · Conflict and Health

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9. Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the Context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh

   Nayanika Mookherjee · 2021 · Strategic Analysis

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10. Rethinking Rape: The Role of Women in Wartime Violence

    Meredith Loken · 2016 · Security Studies

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