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Full-Text Articles in Military, War, and Peace
Lt. Col. Vindman Is A Patriot, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Lt. Col. Vindman Is A Patriot, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Faculty Scholarship
Op-ed: Kastenberg discusses how it is the duty of a commissioned officer to report activity they consider legally questionable and it is within their duty to testify before Congress.
Book Review: Aisling Swaine, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition (2018), Jennifer Moore
Book Review: Aisling Swaine, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition (2018), Jennifer Moore
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Acknowledging that rape is sometimes utilized as a “weapon of war” represents an important development in humanitarian action and scholarly inquiry. However, Aisling Swaine instructs this is but one important facet of the range of harms women experience in time of war, not to mention in peacetime. Swaine articulates two powerful themes: the variant nature of violence against women in times of war, and the other concerns its ambulant nature over time.
Swaine’s treatment of “conflict-related violence against women” represents an important contribution to the canon of feminist scholarship on gender-based violence. Her insights emerge from qualitative research she conducted …