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Abstract
In Resolution 2467 (2019), the most recent addition to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, the UN Security Council embraced the idea of a 'survivor-centred approach' to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence. While this terminology is now widely used in international policy circles, the general lack of critical reflection on the concept of survivor-centrism is striking. Addressing this gap, this interdisciplinary article seeks to demonstrate that a survivor-centred approach, by itself, is too narrow. It utilizes the ecological concept of connectivity - which refers to connections that enable and facilitate vital ecological processes - and repurposes it in a social science context to develop the article's core argument: that survivor-centred discourse marginalizes, or neglects, the fundamental webs of connectivity in which the everyday lives of those who have suffered conflict-related sexual violence are intricately interwoven. The article draws on qualitative interviews with victims/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda to empirically develop two particular 'connectivity critiques' of survivor-centred discourse, focused on resources and health respectively. Ultimately, it is not advocating the abandonment of a survivor-centred approach, but, rather, a social-ecological reframing of it. It presents connectivity as a new conceptual approach for thinking about and dealing with conflict-related sexual violence.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1067-1084 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | International Affairs |
Volume | 97 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Jul 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding information: This research was supported by the European Research Council under grant number 724518.Keywords
- conflict-related sexual violence
- connectivity
- health
- resources
- social ecology
- survivor-centred approach
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Political Science and International Relations
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Research data supporting 'A comparative study of resilience in survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: New directions for transitional justice'
Clark, J. (Creator), Nieto Valdivieso, Y. (Creator) & Apio, E. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 5 Aug 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25500/edata.bham.00000705
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