On 14-16 February 2013, partners of the Missing Peace Initiative together with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America convened a group of expert scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and military and civil society actors for the first Missing Peace Symposium on preventing conflict-related sexual violence.
At the symposium, which took place at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) in Washington DC, participants examined the issue of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, identified gaps in knowledge and reporting, and explored how to increase the effectiveness of current responses to such violence.
Watch the video from the Missing Peace Symposium 2013 here.
Special Report
To mark the first Missing Peace Symposium, a special report entitled 'Wartime Sexual Violence: Misconceptions, Implications, and Ways Forward' was developed by Dara Kay Cohen, Amelia Hoover Green, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, and launched at the symposium.
Policy Briefs
Also for the occassion of the first Missing Peace Symposium, the following PRIO Policy Briefs on sexual violence were published:
- Cohen, Dara Kay & Ragnhild Nordås (2012) Sexual Violence by Militias in African Conflicts: Not a question of 'delegation' by states, PRIO Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: CSCW.
- Cohen, Dara Kay & Ragnhild Nordås (2012) Sexual Violence in African Conflicts, 1989–2009: What the data show, PRIO Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: CSCW.
- Nordås, Ragnhild (2012)Sexual Violence on the Decline? Recent debates and evidence suggest 'unlikely', PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: CSCW.
- Nordås, Ragnhild (2013) Preventing Conflict-related Sexual Violence, PRIO Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
- Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013) Preventing Perpetrators: How to go from protection to prevention of sexual violence in war? PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
About the Missing Peace Initiative
The Missing Peace Initiative was established in 2013 as a collaborative project of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), and Women In International Security (WIIS).
The Initiative brings together scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and military and civil society actors to examine the issue of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, identify gaps in knowledge and reporting, and explore how to increase the effectiveness of current responses to such violence.
