Gendered Violence in Conflict

Dr Elizabeth Frazer is head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Katharine Millar is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in International Relations at Somerville College, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Frazer. In this video, they discuss the current status of gendered violence in global conflict zones. They examine whether there have been serious changes in the way the international community recognises and deals with the issue of rape in war and the role that gendered violence plays in modern conflicts. They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.