WUNRN
PSJ
Peace Studies Journal
Vol.
2, Issue 2
Winter 2009
Direct
Link to Full Text:
http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org/archive/winter09/mcdonald.doc
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Torturing by Non-State Actors Invisibilized, A Patriarchal Divide and Spillover Violence from the Military Sphere into the Domestic Sphere
Authors:
Jeanne Sarson
Email: twin2@eastlink.ca
Phone/fax:
1-902-895-6659
Linda
MacDonald
Email:
flight@ns.sympatico.ca
Phone:
1-902-895-2255
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TORTURING BY NON-STATE ACTORS INVIZIBILIZED, A PATRIARCHAL DIVIDE AND SPILLOVER VIOLENCE FROM THE MILITARY SHPERE INTO THE DOMESTIC SPHERE
Abstract
Processes
of inquiry: a questionnaire, web-survey, and the narratives of women detailing
how non-state actor torture (NSAT) inflicted by a mother, father, sibling and
guardians who had warring or military experiences, spilled over into the
domestic sphere. Discussion illustrates how a patriarchal divide has and does
exist internationally and nationally in Canada whereby the defining elements of
state torture: severity, intentionality, purposefulness and powerlessness make
it a distinct offence from all others, whereas, these elements are not equally
applied to NSAT to acknowledge that it is also is a distinct offence that
occurs in the domestic sphere, therefore NSAT is invisibilized. It is argued
that discrimination exists, even within the UN Committee on the Convention on
the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), when
there was a failure to recognize Canadian women and girls who survived NSAT as
a vulnerable group. Socio-legal visibilization solutions are suggested.
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