Sexual violence remains a pervasive reality of war. Redressing Rape in War presents an innovative medico-legal framework for redressing conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), integrating insights from transitional justice, restorative justice, and medical scholarship. Drawing on empirical research across three diverse settings-including interviews with victims and professionals in transitional justice and healthcare-this book critically examines the evolution of existing reparative measures and advances an interdisciplinary approach to justice and redress. Through a health-centred perspective, this book explores the forensic, psychological, physical, and social consequences of CRSV, emphasising the cascading effects of embodied trauma and its impact on victims' long-term well-being. Recognising that traditional forms of reparations struggle to address the breadth of harm inflicted, this book forwards a vulnerability-based framework that enhances their effectiveness by acknowledging the relational dimensions of harm, and the role of informal and self-repair mechanisms. By reimagining rehabilitation through a medico-legal lens, it demonstrates how forensic medicine can strengthen accountability, improve reparative outcomes, and offer tangible paths to recovery centred on quality of life. Confronting the structural, cultural, and political conditions that sustain CRSV, Redressing Rape in War calls for reparations that not only address individual harm but also catalyse broader social and institutional transformation to ensure sustainable justice for victims and survivors of CRSV and beyond.
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Drawing on empirical research across three diverse settings, Redressing Rape in War offers an innovative medico-legal framework for redressing conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), integrating insights from transitional justice, restorative justice, and medical scholarship.
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1: Introduction 2: A Medico-Legal Approach to Justice, Restoration, and Reparations 3: Harm and Consequences Caused by Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 4: Sexual Violence and Identity: Victim, Survivor, and Patient 5: The Evolution of Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence 6: Remedying Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence 7: Vulnerable Bodies: Resilience, Sexual Violence, and the Utility of Reparations 8: Conclusion
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Dr Sunneva Gilmore is a medical doctor specialising in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Northern Ireland. A member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists since 2018, she has forensic medicine experience and completed a PhD in law at Queen's University Belfast on reparations for conflict-related sexual violence. She has extensive expertise in reparations policy at national and international levels and serves as a Medical Member of the Victims' Payments Board for Northern Ireland. In 2020, she was appointed an expert on reparations at the International Criminal Court, focusing on rape, sexual slavery, and attacks on healthcare.
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Combines legal scholarship and medical insight grounded in the author's expertise in reparations policy and clinical practice in sexual and reproductive healthcare Consolidates the diverse and relevant literature on conflict-related sexual violence into one core text Offers new paths forward for how to broach redress for mass crimes, grounded in a novel vulnerability-resilience perspective Draws on empirical research to provide an in-depth critical examination of harm and identity
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Product details

ISBN
9780198919704
Published
2026
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
563 gr
Height
241 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
272

Biographical note

Dr Sunneva Gilmore is a medical doctor specialising in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Northern Ireland. A member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists since 2018, she has forensic medicine experience and completed a PhD in law at Queen's University Belfast on reparations for conflict-related sexual violence. She has extensive expertise in reparations policy at national and international levels and serves as a Medical Member of the Victims' Payments Board for Northern Ireland. In 2020, she was appointed an expert on reparations at the International Criminal Court, focusing on rape, sexual slavery, and attacks on healthcare.