The Missing Peace

All Works

24 Mar

Sexual Violence in Conflicts and Post Conflict Settings

The Missing Peace (12 min.)

the missing peace video

About the Project

The International Criminal Court and other humanitarian law statutes include sexual violence as a war crime. Despite this, sexual violence is far too often a tactic of war and terrorism throughout the world and has become a part of almost every conflict today.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America) convened a group of expert 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. The Missing Peace video explores their three day symposium and the issues that were discussed.

The Missing Peace video was produced by ART WORKS Projects, Follow Spot Media, and Tess Landon. Contributors include:

Leslie Thomas, Director
Ted Chu, Director of Photography
Linda Bergonia, Camera B
Bernie Ozol, Sound
Forward Motion Media, Post Production
Shayne Weyker, PA
Chelsea Poeppel, Intern
John Sutton, Music

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News

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) published findings on sexual violence in conflict areas and non-conflict areas in Armenia, Belgium, Finland, The Gambia, Honduras, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Switzerland and Ukraine

Stats

For every woman who comes forward to report sexual violence in the midst of a conflict, it is estimated that a further 10 to 20 cases go undocumented and unaddressed

United States Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace has reported on a new U.S. strategy for atrocity prevention which offers a chance to better prevent conflict-related sexual violence

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Partners

AWP would like to acknowledge the support and partnership of the following individuals and groups in the production of The Missing Peace:

Dr. Gary Barker, Promundo-US
Ms.Veronica Isala Eragu Bichetero, EDG Venture Consult Uganda
Dr. Jelke Boesten, University of Leeds
Dr. Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard University
Ms. Pia Peeters, The World Bank’s Learning on Gender and Conflict in Africa (LOGICA) Program
Dr. Maryam Elahi, Open Society Foundation
Ms. Ellen Friedman, Compton Foundation