Wartime Sexual Violence: Assessing a Human Security Response to War-Affected Girls in Sierra Leone
Wartime Sexual Violence: Assessing a Human Security Response to War-Affected Girls in Sierra Leone
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战时性暴力：评估对塞拉利昂受战争影响的女孩的人类安全反应
DOI：
10.1177/0967010606069178
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
M. Denov
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作者：
M. Denov
在当代冲突中，战时性暴力仍然是普遍和系统性的。尽管这一问题日益受到国际关注，但在很大程度上，它仍然是安全研究领域的外围问题。然而，人的安全议程可能有能力提高战时性暴力问题的知名度，并提供一个有用的框架，据以了解和应对受战争影响的女孩和妇女的独特需求。本文探讨了人的安全议程的能力，从概念上和实际上，以解决在塞拉利昂冲突后的性暴力的女孩受害者的困境。文章借鉴了以前与塞拉利昂革命联合阵线有关联的三名女孩的观点和经历，追溯了冲突期间和冲突后女孩被迫忍受的极端形式的性暴力和不安全感。报告还审查了在冲突后开展的若干人的安全工作及其对增强女童权能、保护女童和保障女童安全的影响。根据冲突后塞拉利昂女孩的生活现实，探讨了这些人的安全工作的更广泛影响。
Wartime sexual violence continues to be widespread and systematic in contemporary conflicts. Although the problem is gaining increasing international attention, it has remained, for the most part, peripheral within the domain of security studies. However, the human security agenda may have the capacity to raise the profile of wartime sexual violence and offer a useful framework from which to understand and respond to the unique needs of war-affected girls and women. This article explores the capacity of the human security agenda, both conceptually and practically, to address the plight of girl victims of sexual violence in the aftermath of Sierra Leone's conflict. Drawing upon the perspectives and experiences of three girls formerly associated with Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front, the article traces the extreme forms of sexual violence and insecurity girls were forced to endure, both during and following the conflict. It also examines a number of human security efforts implemented in the conflict's aftermath and their impact on the level of empowerment, protection and security of girls. The broader implications of these human security efforts are explored in light of the girls' lived realities in post-conflict Sierra Leone.