Articles

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What keeps women safe from violence during shocks? Review of risk and protective factors in the Indo-Pacific region

VAW can escalate during and immediately after shocks – this scoping review examines the associated risk and protective factors to mitigate VAW during and after shocks.

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Using Data Science to Examine Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

The lack of data is a major barrier to comprehending conflict-related sexual violence. Can data science methods analyze news reports promptly and accurately? This compares manual, machine-learning and Generative AI analysis of thousands of media reports.

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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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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.