3 February 2011 10:30 - 17:00 | Seminar

Sexual Violence in Conflict

Bergen ressurssenter for internasjonal utvikling

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    Sexual violence is widespread in many armed conflicts. Why is sexual violence used in wars? Why does it vary between countries both during and after conflicts? Welcome to this seminar, where leading scholars present new research on Latin America, Europe and Africa.

    Programme

    10:30-10:40

    Opening remarks

    Siri Gloppen, Research Director, CMI, and Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen

    10:40-12:30

    Panel 1 – Cross-national Perspectives 1
    Chair and discussant: Ingrid Samset, Researcher, CMI

    “Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence”
    Elisabeth Jean Wood, Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, USA

    “How to Study Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in War?”
    Inger Skjelsbæk, Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

    12:30-13:00

    Lunch

    13:00-14:30

    Panel 2 – Cross-national Perspectives 2
    Chair: Liv Tønnessen, Researcher, CMI
    Discussant: Zoe Nielsen, Executive Director of the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University.

    “The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) Data Project”
    Ragnhild Nordås, Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO

     

    14:30-15:00

    Coffee break

    15:00-16:45

    Panel 3 – Case Studies
    Chair: Inger Skjelsbæk, Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

    Discussant:
    Gaudencia Mutema    , Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Women's and Gender Research, University of Bergen.

    “Understanding (Sexual) Violence in the DRC: A Case Study of the FARDC”
    Maria Stern, Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    “Sexual Violence During and After War: the Case of Eastern Congo”
    Ingrid Samset, Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway

    16:45-17:00

    Closing remarks

    Siri Gloppen, Research Director, CMI, and Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen

    Please register by 1 February with Liv Tønnessen (liv.tonnessen@cmi.no).