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Rape Is Common During Wartime, But Even Within The Context Of The Same War, Some Armed Groups Perpetrate Rape On A Massive Scale While Others Never Do. In Rape During Civil War Dara Kay Cohen Examines Variation In The Severity And Perpetrators Of Rape Using An Original Dataset Of Reported Rape During All Major Civil Wars From 1980 To 2012. Cohen Also Conducted Extensive Fieldwork, Including Interviews With Perpetrators Of Wartime Rape, In Three Postconflict Counties, Finding That Rape Was Widespread In The Civil Wars Of The Sierra Leone And Timor-leste But Was Far Less Common During El Salvador's Civil War. Cohen Argues That Armed Groups That Recruit Their Fighters Through The Random Abduction Of Strangers Use Rape--and Especially Gang Rape--to Create Bonds Of Loyalty And Trust Between Soldiers. The Statistical Evidence Confirms That Armed Groups That Recruit Using Abduction Are More Likely To Perpetrate Rape Than Are Groups That Use Voluntary Methods, Even Controlling For Other Confounding Factors. Important Findings From The Fieldwork--across Cases--include That Rape, Even When It Occurs On A Massive Scale, Rarely Seems To Be Directly Ordered. Instead, Former Fighters Describe Pa

Who reads Rape during Civil War?

Author

Dara Kay Cohen

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501705274

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences