Campbell, Kirsten. 2007. The Gender of Transitional Justice: Law, Sexual Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The International Journal of Transitional Justice, 1(3), pp. 411-432. ISSN 1752-7716 [Article]

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Recent efforts to develop and implement progressive models of transitional justice have been significantly influenced by major developments in the law concerning sexual violence in armed conflict. In particular, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has pioneered accountability for sexual violence against women in armed conflict. This article takes the ICTY as a case study of how gender can structure the accountability mechanisms of transitional justice. The article analyses how legal norms and practices instantiate and reiterate, rather than transform, existing hierarchical gender relations. It considers the existing models of sexual violence as a criminal harm under international law, and then examines gendered patterns of legal practice in ICTY prosecutions. To address this engendering of transitional justice, the article produces a new model of the harm of sexual violence in conflict, suggests the development of a new international offence of sexual violence and generates different strategies for international prosecutions of sexual violence.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijm033
Keywords:	international criminal tribunal, yugoslavia, sexual violence, rape, war crime, gender, genocide, crimes against humanity, kunarac, brdanin, biljana plavsic, bassiouni report, justice,
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Unit for Global Justice (UGJ) > Gender of Justice
Dates:	Date Event December 2007 Published
Item ID:	2190
Date Deposited:	28 May 2009 09:54
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2021 13:57
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2190

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