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The Missing Peace Symposium (Panel 6)
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The Missing Peace Symposium: Panel Six: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
Sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings is increasingly recognized as a threat to international peace and security. Globally, state and non-state armed actors use sexual violence against women, men, and children to intimidate and terrorize populations, through forced displacement, destroying communities, and silencing of victims. When fighting ends, sexual violence often does not— undermining post-conflict reconstruction efforts and the transition to more stable, secure, and peaceful societies.
Despite the increased international attention to sexual violence as a weapon of war, including the adoption of UN Security Council resolutions, and important rulings in international criminal courts, initiatives to prevent or mitigate these violent acts continue to fall short. Existing international interventions may lack an integrated understanding of the causes for sexual violence and its implications for societies at large.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America) convened a group of scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and military and civil society actors to examine the issue of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, identify gaps in knowledge and reporting, and explore how to increase the effectiveness of current responses to such violence.
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Panel Six: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
This panel will explore questions around data-collection and how to generate good qualitative and quantitative data on sexual violence in armed conflict.
Dr. Mary Ellsberg, Global Women's Institute, George Washington University, USA
Dr. Lynn Lawry, Initiative in Global Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical, USA
Dr. Ragnhild Nordås, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway
Mr. S. Matthew Stearmer, Board of Directors/Principal Investigator, WomenStats Database, USA
Dr. Shana Swiss, Women's Rights International, USA
Moderators:
Dr. Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard University, USA
Dr. Kathleen Kuehnast, Center for Gender & Peacebuilding, U.S. Institute of Peace, USA
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