POLSCI 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wartime Sexual Violence, Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Moral Authority

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 389
• Professor: Ragnhild Nordas

Document Summary

Theme: evolving understanding of sexual violence in the 1990s-2000s. Important variation discussed by elizabeth wood, 10 observed patterns of variation in: group there could be a higher prevalence although the entire country could be small. Prevalence - can have high/low/somewhere in between or in certain cases for a particular. Form - different forms of sexual violence, might be overlapping or not, which forms are clearly identifiable compared to others. Range of violations that could be included in what we could consider as sexual violence. Not all cases are equal that it is the same type of violence committed, but could be different. This explains why people are doing what they are doing and who they are targeting. Explains if it is opportunistic, military strategy, etc. Symmetry or asymmetry between conflict parties - most cases expect symmetry, if one armed group in a conflict is doing this then another group in the conflict will do it too.