Women and Conflict (LAW-978-001)
SaCouto
Meets: 03:00 PM - 04:50 PM (T) - Room 501
Enrolled: 12 / Limit: 16
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Description
Crimes committed disproportionately or exclusively against women and girls in times of conflict have traditionally been largely ignored, or at most, treated as secondary to other crimes. However, in the past decade, and particularly since 1998, there has been an incredible transformation in the treatment of sex-based and gender-based violence in the fields of international humanitarian law and international criminal law. This course will explore how women in times of conflict are treated under the various categories of the laws of war, such as civilians, combatants, detainees, refugees and internally displaced persons, but also question whether these laws are sufficient to encompass the considerable variety of ways women are affected by conflict. The course will examine feminist critiques of IHL and consider the links between conflict and issues such as women’s inequality and inequitable economic and social conditions, and query whether these conditions lead to new and different types of discrimination against women in times of conflict. The course will also look at the developing jurisprudence dealing specifically with gendered violence from various tribunals. We will also examine from a critical feminist perspective, the consequences of the prosecution of sex-based and gender-based by these courts and tribunals.
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First Class Readings
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