Sexual Violence as an International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches

This edited volume will focus on developments in the prosecution of cases of sexual violence in (post-)conflict situations. The prosecution of those cases raises new and challenging questions as to how to build evidence, but also how to address victims' concerns in that process. It will address innovations and challenges of empirical and other new kinds of social scientific, archival and medical data collection techniques; the development of evidence in relation to charges ranging from sexual violence as a war crime to genocide; and evidentiary and procedural differences and difficulties involved in prosecuting sexual victimization in domestic versus international courts.

Contributors: Lynn Lawry, Kirsten Johnson, Jana Asher, Maxine Marcus, John Hagan, Richard Brooks, Todd J. Haugh, Chen Reis, Kelly Askin, Valerie Oosterveld, Sandy Sivakumaran, Patricia Viseur Sellers, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Heikelien Verrijn Stuart, Linda Bianchi, Michelle Jarvis, Elena Martin Salgado, Wanda Akin, Sofia Candeias, Marian Tankink, Sarah Sharratt, Anne-Marie de Brouwer, Patrick Cammaert, RenŽe Ršmkens, Brigid Inder, Rachel Irwin and Usta Kaitesi