Beyond Strategic Rape and Between the Public and Private: Violence Against Women in Armed Conflict

This study gets to the heart of examining what counts as conflict-related\udgender violence under international law. Using empirical research from\udLiberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste, the study specifically explores\udand explains variance beyond strategic sexualized violence employed in\udsome conflicts, to analyze the ways that private individualistic violence is\udinfluenced by conflict across the three case studies. Proposing a set of variables\udas possible determinants of wide-ranging forms of violence, the study\udproposes that on a continuum of “political public violence” to “endemic\udprivate violence,” there are forms of violence that may sit somewhere “inbetween.”\udThe analysis queries where this “in-between”’ violence should fit\udin the thresholds provided by law and what consideration should be given\udto the political and private violence nexus that the research demonstrates