| ID | 179812 |
| Title Proper | Beyond a ‘survivor-centred approach’ to conflict-related sexual violence? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Clark, Janine Natalya |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In Resolution 2467 (2019), the most recent addition to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, the UN Security Council embraced the idea of a ‘survivor-centred approach’ to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence. While this terminology is now widely used in international policy circles, the general lack of critical reflection on the concept of survivor-centrism is striking. Addressing this gap, this interdisciplinary article seeks to demonstrate that a survivor-centred approach, by itself, is too narrow. It utilizes the ecological concept of connectivity—which refers to connections that enable and facilitate vital ecological processes—and repurposes it in a social science context to develop the article's core argument: that survivor-centred discourse marginalizes, or neglects, the fundamental webs of connectivity in which the everyday lives of those who have suffered conflict-related sexual violence are intricately interwoven. The article draws on qualitative interviews with victims/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda to empirically develop two particular ‘connectivity critiques’ of survivor-centred discourse, focused on resources and health respectively. Ultimately, it is not advocating the abandonment of a survivor-centred approach, but, rather, a social-ecological reframing of it. It presents connectivity as a new conceptual approach for thinking about and dealing with conflict-related sexual violence. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs Vol. 97, No.4; Jul 2021: p.1067–1084 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs Vol: 97 No 4 |
| Key Words | Women ; Un Security Council ; Conflict-Related Sexual Violenc ; Resolution 2467 (2019) ; Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda |