Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice

This book offers a comprehensive study of resilience among survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, emphasizing social connections. Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice presents valuable insights for scholars and policymakers.

This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). It locates resilience within the relationships and interactions between individuals and their social ecologies, including family, community, non-governmental organizations, and the natural environment. By developing a conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity, the book presents a nuanced analysis of rich empirical data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, and Uganda, illustrating stories of resilience through the contextual, dynamic, and storied connectivities that exist between individuals and their social environments.

Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice employs a framework that encompasses three key elements: broken and ruptured connectivities, supportive and sustaining connectivities, and new connectivities. Through this lens, the book argues for the necessity of evolving the field of transitional justice in innovative social-ecological directions. It explores the implications of these developments, both conceptually and practically, for understanding resilience in the aftermath of conflict-related sexual violence.

This book appeals to a diverse audience, including scholars, researchers, and policymakers interested in resilience and transitional justice. The relatively limited attention given to resilience in existing literature on CRSV and transitional justice underscores the significance and originality of this research, which contributes both conceptual and empirical insights to the field. The Open Access version of this book is available at www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.