SEXUAL
VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT
Global
Overview and Implications for
the Security Sector
By Megan Bastick, Karin Grimm, Rahel
Kunz
DCAF, 2007, 216 pages, ISBN
978-92-9222-059-4
Information
about sexual violence perpetrated during armed conflict is scarce, scattered
and selective. Policy makers, donors and humanitarian groups consistently call
for better documentation of sexual violence in conflict. Responding to this
need, DCAF invites you to read and use the enclosed report, Sexual
Violence in Armed Conflict: Global Overview and Implications for the Security
Sector.
The report
demonstrates the horrifying scope and magnitude of sexual violence in armed
conflict. It brings to light sexual violence in the world's underreported
conflicts, as well as in those countries where it is notoriously commonplace.
The Global Overview profiles conflict-related sexual violence in
fifty-one countries, throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the
Middle East.
Security sector
institutions are crucial in preventing and responding to sexual violence in
armed conflict. The second part of the report, Implications
for the Security Sector, explores strategies for security and justice
actors to prevent and respond to sexual violence in armed conflict and
post-conflict situations. It focuses particularly on peacekeepers, police, the
justice sector including transitional justice, DDR programmes and civil society
initiatives.
In 2005,
DCAF published a major study, Women in an Insecure World, bringing its
expertise in security policy and security sector governance to an examination
of violence against women as a global phenomenon, and of the role of women in
peace-building. DCAF has since developed a programme on gender and security,
focusing both on security sector responses to gender-based violence, and the
participation of women in security processes and institutions.
In Sexual
Violence in Armed Conflict: Global Overview and Implications for the Security
Sector,
the
authors propose various ways in which the security and justice
sectors can improve or develop strategies to prevent and respond to sexual
violence in armed conflict and post-conflict situations. It is a resource for
security sector agencies, as well as for policymakers and researchers, civil
society groups and humanitarian agencies that work with affected populations
and security agencies.
How to order:
If you would like to receive
a free hard copy for your organisation or for distribution to
partners and policy- and decision-makers, please contact publications@dcaf.ch. We will need your full postal address and indication of
how many copies you require.
We would be grateful if you could
forward this e-mail through appropriate networks.
Should you like to know more about
DCAF's work on gender and security issues, we invite you to visit our website
at www.dcaf.ch or contact us on info@dcaf.ch.
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