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| Title | : | Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender from the War Narrative (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812245180 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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At a moment when international interventions in societies in crisis have never been more visible, this powerful and in-depth analysis is sorely needed."—Mary Moran, Colgate University. "Sex and International Tribunals interrogates the unstated cultural assumptions behind the legal profession's claims to impartiality and universality
. She currently teaches international humanitarian law and human rights at Lehman College--CUNY. Chiseche Salome Mibenge has been a human rights consultant in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone
In many cases, a single rape conviction constitutes sufficient proof that gender-based violence has been mainstreamed into the prosecution of war crimes. Now, international tribunals have the potential to help make sense of political violence against both men and women; they have the power to uphold victims' claims and to convict the leaders and choreographers of systematic atrocity. Focusing on the postwar tribunals in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, Mibenge mines the transcripts of local and supranational criminal trials and truth and reconciliation commissions in order to identify and closely examine legal definitions of forced marriage, sexual enslavement, and the conscription of children that overlook the gendered experiences of armed conflict beyond the mass rape of women and girls. Drawing on anthropological research in African conflicts, and feminist theory, Mibenge challenges legal narratives that reinscribe essentialized notions of gender in the conduct and resolution of violent conflict and uncovers the suppressed testimonies of men and women who are unwilling or un
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