This policy brief
explores patterns of women’s civil
society mobilization around CRSV
in Colombia, looking particularly at
these women’s perceptions of CRSV. It
reveals that civil society activists link
CRSV first and foremost to gender
inequality and patriarchal norms in
society. In contrast to the globally
dominant understanding of CRSV as a
weapon of war that stems purely from
conflict dynamics and war strategy,
these activists understand sexual
violence in the private sphere and that
perpetrated in war as on a continuum,
entrenched in patriarchal norms and
gender inequalities.'
The brief is by Anne-Kathrin Kreft, University of Gothenburg.
Read the Policy Brief in full here.