~I am forever indebted to those in Eastern DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland who agreed to share their stories with me, however painful and daunting. I am also grateful to all my colleagues and MA students in the Great Lakes region of Africa who encouraged me to write this...

~Scholarship has long established the multiple intersections between gender and conflicts, and recognizes gender as a fundamental dimension of politico-cultural mobilization in nationalist politics, conflict and war (Byrne 1996; Cockburn 2004b; Giles and Hyndman 2004; Mayer 2000; Nagel...

~Sexual violence against women within armies, or used as a “weapon of war” in conflict zones such as in Syria, the DRC and numerous other conflict areas, has recently attracted a lot of media...

~Making sense of wartime sexual violence against men demands to solve a series of puzzles. Leaving aside cases in which sexual violence against men can be assimilated to homosexual acts—according to the data that has been collected up to now, these seem to be extremely...

~While a few researchers have explored the motivations of perpetrators of sexual violence against women in conflict zones (see, for instance, Eriksson Baaz 2009; Eriksson Baaz and Stern 2013; Skjelsbæk 2015), very little is known about those who perpetrate sexual violence against...

~The capacity of male survivors to cope with what happened to them and, more generally, the ability of the wider society to deal with, and to overcome the sequels left by, sexual violence are inevitably...

~When wartime sexual violence against men is evoked in the media, it is often through a discourse of exceptionality, of novelty, as if it was a new problem that had just been discovered. It also frequently builds on a narrative of endless horror, related to some places embodying...

~Providing support to male survivors of wartime sexual violence entails overcoming a series of major challenges, some of which are related to the narratives detailed in the previous chapter, while others pertain to material and funding obstacles. Because men have long been totally...

~Up to a recent period, wartime sexual violence against women or men was very rarely prosecuted, and many observers used to consider it as a harrowing, but inevitable, corollary of war. For instance, only a handful of the numerous and well documented episodes of sexual violence...

~The examples and stories discussed throughout this book show that wartime sexual violence against men is not a corollary of war, but that it is intrinsically intertwined with larger political and military struggles. Its occurrence and main features are not just related to the...

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~Élise Féron is a docent and a university researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (Finland). She is also a professor at the Université Lumière de Bujumbura (Burundi) where she co-convenes a Gender Studies Master Programme. She has...

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