1st Edition

Femicide in War and Peace

Edited By Shalva Weil Copyright 2023
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses the phenomenon of femicide—the killing of women globally because of their gender—in peacetime and in war. Femicide in war is different from femicide in peace, and yet the dividing line between the two is thin. Violence against women happens in many forms—from emotional, psychological, and financial abuse, and barriers to personal autonomy, to physical and sexual abuse... Read more

Introduction: Targeting Femicide in War and Peace

Shalva Weil

1. Socio-Legal Aspects of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Survivors’ Victimization in Kosovo

Jiři Němec

2. The Continuum of Human Insecurity for Women: Femicide in War and Peace

Laura Isabella Brunke and Tobias Debiel

3. Statistical Biases, Measurement Challenges, and Recommendations for Studying Patterns of Femicide in Conflict

Maria Gargiulo

4. Invisible Police Lethal Violence Against Black Women in the United States: An Intersectional Approach

Janice Joseph

5. Understanding and Addressing Femicide in Peacetime Zimbabwe

Kudakwashe Chirambwi

6. Femicide, Harmful Practices, Religious Organizations and the Law in the North Caucasus

Saida Sirazhudinova

7. Africa’s Code of Honour and the Protection of Women

Komlan Agbedahin

8. Femicide Prevention Strategy Development Process: The South African Experience

Nwabisa Shai, Leane Ramsoomar and Naeemah Abrahams

9. Transitional Justice Interview and Reflections: Perspectives of Women Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi on Reparation and Repair

Noam Schimmel

10. Suicide, Femicide, and COVID-19

Katerina Standish

Biography

Shalva Weil is a Senior Researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Stuides, UNISA (University of South Africa).