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The Weaponization of Sexual Violence: Boko Haram’s Quest for Control Over Territories and Women’s Bodies

This paper examines Boko Haram through a feminist political economy perspective, utilizing primary and secondary data. It traces the group’s changing ideology by analyzing how it exploited gendered socio-economic structures.

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Impact of Social, Political, and Environmental Events on Violence Against Women in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific faces frequent shocks (conflict, disasters, health crises) that increase violence against women. This review of 203 studies highlights urgent need for localised, gender-responsive policies.

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Can the state prevent? The role of the Joint Communiqué in preventing conflict-related sexual violence

This study explores how reform to state-level institutional norms and practices proceeds in an environment with heavy dependence on the military state sector to cooperate in preventing CRSV.

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Still Falling Short: Aboriginal Children’s Rights and Victoria’s Child Protection System

Victoria’s child protection system continues to harm Aboriginal children and violate their rights, requiring a rights-based reimagining within current Treaty negotiations.

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Technology-Facilitated Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review

This review examines technology-facilitated violence in the Indo-Pacific, highlighting its growing prevalence, impacts, and research gaps, particularly in non-Western contexts.

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Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls

Preventing violence against women and girls in the Pacific requires holistic, Pacific-centred solutions that address root causes and empower local leadership.

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Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities

This article examines how Lutheran theology in Australia represents gender and frames women and femininity as a problem for the church.

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The Gendered Politics of State-Sanctioned Extremism: Evidence from a Study of Buddhist Protectionism

This article investigates a type of state-sanctioned extremism, wherein nationalist movements, supported to varying degrees by governments, seek to “protect” Buddhism across Asia.

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Diffusion of Policy to Address Violence Against Women: Implementation Evidence from Indonesia

The paper aims to understand why some but not all subnational governments adopt policies to implement violence against women (VAW) response services.