Rape, Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice Challenges: by Janine Natalya Clark

By Janine Natalya Clark

It is anticipated that 20,000 humans have been subjected to rape and different kinds of sexual violence throughout the 1992–1995 Bosnian battle. this day, those women and men were mostly forgotten. the place are they now? To what volume do their stories proceed to impact and effect their lives, and the lives of these round them? What are the vital difficulties that those contributors face? Such questions stay mostly unanswered. extra largely, the long term effects of conflict-related rape and sexual violence are usually missed. in line with wide interviews with female and male survivors from all ethnic teams in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), this interdisciplinary ebook addresses a severe hole within the present literature on rape and sexual violence in clash occasions. In so doing, it uniquely situates and explores the legacy of those crimes inside a transitional justice framework. Demonstrating that transitional justice strategies in BiH have ignored the long term results of rape and sexual violence, it develops and operationalizes a brand new holistic method of transitional justice that's in keeping with an elevated notion of ‘legacy’ and has a much wider program past BiH.

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