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Title
Sexual violence in the conflicts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Full text
http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/12662 |
Date
2013 |
Author(s)
Klockmann, Ida |
Contributor(s)
Jensen, Steffen |
Abstract
This report seeks to investigate what might explain the sexual violence (SV) perpetrated in the conflicts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) aiming to understand the reasons behind, as a means of creating preventive policies to end or minimize the acts. This report does not provide suggestions for such policies, but tries to understand. It scrutinizes explanations focusing on either intention of the perpetrators or effect of circumstances, using a heuristic method of including a wide range of theoretical explanations forming a total of six hypotheses. These are tested using various secondary empirical data material collected by organizations, institutes, and scholars studying the DRC. Consequently, the report is able to conclude that various, complementary and sometimes contradictory theories find empirical support in explaining SV perpetration in the DRC. Among examples of these findings are the theory of challenged masculinity, which is supported as explaining SV due to financial measures of being unable to provide for one's family and due to disappointments with the corruption of the otherwise rather masculine stereotype of the military institution, while the theory claiming strategic targeting of victims due to their ethnicity is empirically questioned as explaining more than a minority of SV in the DRC. This conclusion resembles the complexity of the entire focus area, of the conflicts and the country, making simple explanations useless, and making similarly simple preventive policies highly problematic as they might overlook essentials, might have no effect and might work against their actual intention. Understanding the problem is key here, and that is what this report attempts to contribute to. |
Subject(s)
Sexual violence; Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Language
en_US |
Type of publication
Thesis; IU-studier / International Development Studies - Master thesis |
Repository
Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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