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9 - Connecting the Egregious and the Everyday

Addressing Impunity for Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka

from Part III - New(er) Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

Paul Gready
Affiliation:
University of York
Simon Robins
Affiliation:
University of York
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Chapter 8 argues that war time sexual argues that war time sexual violence, which has become hyper-visible within transitional justice discourses and practices, far from being exceptional is part of a continuum of violence and impunity from the home front to the war front. The transformative potential of transitional justice lies in challenging this binary distinction between argues that war time sexual violence, which has become hyper-visible within transitional justice discourses and practices, far from being exceptional is part of a continuum of violence and impunity from the home front to the war front. The transformative potential of transitional justice lies in challenging this binary distinction between egregious and everyday sexual violence. In doing so, the author questions other binaries which characterize the field and which are deeply gendered: public versus private, international versus national, civil-political versus socio-economic rights, and so on. The chapter assesses how these binaries were deployed in the international campaign for justice relating to sexual violence in detention committed by the Sri Lankan military during the island’s civil war. Drawing on the contrasting agenda of the local ‘Journey towards Justice’ campaign, it concludes that the possibility for transitional justice to challenge these binaries is locally informed - contingent and context specific - and undermined by excessive internationalization.
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Print publication year: 2019

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