BISA 2026 Conference

Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Norms, Silences and Survival Strategies

TH04

4 Jun 2026, 15:00

1h 30m

Syndicate 4, Brighton Centre

Gendering International Relations Working Group

Description

Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Norms, Silences and Survival Strategies

Subcontributions

• NATO’s Approach to Combatting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Individualising and Externalising Legal Responsibility
• Relational Resilience and Civilian Agency: Women’s Survival Strategies for Sexual Violence Crimes During Electoral Violence in Kenya
• Confronting ‘War’s Oldest and Least Condemned Crime’: An Examination of the International Norm against Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
• Tamil Women, Honour-Shame, and Conflict: De-Silencing and De-stigmatising Wartime Sexual Violence
• Contesting sexual security regimes: Towards a queer feminist political economy of gendered violences in Guatemala