POLSCI 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Wartime Sexual Violence, Forced Abortion

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

Document Summary

Policy and advocacy debates: ending impunity & weapon of war. "ending sexual violence in conflict: the preventing sexual violence initiative and its critics. " This article offers an early assessment of the preventing sexual violence initiative (psvi) and situates it within the history of global action against sexual and gender-based violence from un. Security council resolution 1325 onwards, with a particular focus on three key developments. First, the psvi has embraced the already common understanding of rape as a weapon of war", and has stressed the importance of military training and accountability. Second, the initiative has placed great emphasis on ending impunity, which implicates it in ongoing debates about the role of international and local justice as an effective response to atrocity. Third, men and boys have been foregrounded as ignored victims of sexual and gender-based violence. together activists, doctors, youth delegates, humanitarians, lawyers, military officers and ministers (of defence and foreign affairs, not just gender and development).