Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice : : A Social-Ecological Framing / / Janine N. Clark.

• VerfasserIn: Clark, Janine N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :; illustrations

This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Locating resilience in the relationships and interactions between individuals and their social ecologies (including family, community, non-governmental organisations and the natural environment), the book develops its own conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity. It applies the framework to its analysis of rich empirical data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda, and it tells a set of stories about resilience through the contextual, dynamic and storied connectivities between individuals and their social ecologies. Ultimately, it utilises the three elements of the framework - namely, broken and ruptured connectivities, supportive and sustaining connectivities and new connectivities - to argue the case for developing the field of transitional justice in new social-ecological directions, and to explore what this might conceptually and practically entail. The book will particularly appeal to anyone with an interest in, or curiosity about, resilience, and to scholars, researchers and policy makers working on CRSV and/or transitional justice. The fact that resilience has received surprisingly little attention within existing literature on either CRSV or transitional justice accentuates the significance of this research and the originality of its conceptual and empirical contributions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Resilience, conflict-related sexual violence and transitional justice -- Thinking about resilience as a social-ecological concept -- Analysing resilience through connectivity -- Research design, methodology and ethics -- The conflicts and use of sexual violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda -- Connectivity stories of resilience in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Connectivity stories of resilience in Colombia -- Connectivity stories of resilience in Uganda -- Resilience and why social ecologies matter for transitional justice -- Conclusion: Final reflections and connecting the threads -- Appendix 1: The interview guide -- Appendix 2: Rape cases in Bosnia-Herzegovina.