Institutional Capacity to Respond to & Prevent Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

‘The Analysis of Absence: An Enquiry into Institutional Capacity to Respond to and Prevent Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men & Boys’
A workshop by Dr Chris Dolan, Director of the Refugee Law Project and (former) Liu Institute Visiting Fellow at Green College
Presenters: Dr Chris Dolan, Dr Erin Baines, Alicia Luedke, M.A. (Political Science) and Christopher Carter (Community and Regional Planning)
The Global Summit on The Prevention of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict held in June, 2014 provided a critical opportunity to push for the adoption of new and more inclusive global policies for addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
in war. Men and boys, as well as minorities such as LGBTI persons, are typically marginalised by legal and institutional frameworks that only recognize women and children.
The demand for evidence-based policy making poses a major challenge for academics and practitioners; statistics for survivors are generally not available. Dr. Dolan hosted a workshop to discuss the reasons for the absence of evidence, the development of innovative methodologies that combine sociological enquiry with computer science, and preliminary findings with regard to legal frameworks and institutional framings of the problem of conflict-related sexual violence. The workshop brought together various stakeholders to discuss these findings and the methodology adopted.
View a presentation given on March 5th, 2014 by Dr. Chris Dolan titled “Investigating Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.”