Gender-based Violence in Armed Conflict

Led by Ragnhild Nordås

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014

Members

Ragnhild Nordås

The Principal Investigator of this project is Dara Kay Cohen (Harvard University). Ragnhild Nordås (PRIO) is a core resaercher on the project as a sub-contractor at PRIO.

The project will create the most comprehensive cross-national dataset to date on wartime gender-based violence. A number of theoretical questions can be examined with such data. In a pilot study, the researchers found that gender-based violence by armed actors continued, often for years, after the official end of the war and cessation of lethal violence. This and other questions can be examined more conclusively with the new dataset generated by this research.

05/10/2018
PRIO Congratulates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018, ‘for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict’. Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, called the winners ‘the helper … [and] the witness’ in their common fight against sexual violence.

PRIO Director Henrik Urdal had placed Mukwege and Murad on his Nobel Peace Prize shortlist this year, and said it was well-deserved: ‘This is a prize to hold perpetrators of sexual violence in war accountable.’ Mukwege has been on the PRIO Director’s shortlists for the Peace Prize since 2010.

Gender

Civilians in Conflict

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