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Cohen, Dara. "Understanding Sexual Violence During Civil War" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208767_index.html>

Cohen, D. K. , 2007-08-30 "Understanding Sexual Violence During Civil War" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208767_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Why, even within the context of the same civil war, do some combatant groups commit widespread rape, while others never turn to sexual violence? Why do some civil wars experience mass rape while others do not? Using Sierra Leone as a case study, I argue that rape during that conflict served two essential functions: (1) as a weapon, strategically employed in key locations and times to terrorize the population and (2) as an important part of the socialization process for members in some types of combatant groups. Drawing on dozens of original interviews of both non-combatants and ex-combatants collected during five months of fieldwork in Sierra Leone, as well as a newly available household survey of wartime human rights violations, I find that rape was only partly a military strategy. In addition to its value in terrorizing a population, rape was also an unusually successful tool used to facilitate bonding between members of combatant groups. I develop a theory of rape as a socialization tool and perform initial tests of the theory both on microlevel data within Sierra Leone and in a cross-national sample of recent civil wars.

The Role of Female Combatants in Armed Groups: Women and Wartime Rape in Sierra Leone (1991-2002)

Explaining sexual violence in conflict situations: Preliminary findings from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda and Sierra Leone