Exploring how gender norms influence CRSV and judicial responses.

The UN Team of Experts and the Journal of International Criminal Justice (the Journal) came together to present a Special Issue of the Journal on the Progress and Challenges of National Efforts to Address Impunity for Sexual Violence in Conflict. With the launch of the Special Issue, the UN Team of Experts, together with its partners, initiated a Digital Dialogue Series addressing topics covered in the Special Issue. The Digital Dialogue Series has been designed to ensure that academics, policymakers and practitioners have open discussions, provoke critical reflections, and hopefully inspire a community of practice on delivering survivor-sensitive justice for conflict-related sexual violence.

This Seventh session explores how ideas of gender inform the perpetration, experience, and understanding of conflict-related sexual violence. How can norms around gender inequality fuel conflict-related sexual violence? How can gender biases influence judicial response to the conflict-related sexual violence? Ultimately, can judicial response to conflict-related sexual violence, in turn, influence gender norms in the society? The seventh Digital Dialogue will be moderated by Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director of the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration, Washington University in St. Louis. Panelists will include Mark A. Drumbl (Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law), Lydia Muthiani (former Field Officer for International Criminal Court and former Deputy Executive Director at Coalition for Violence Against Women, Kenya), Patricia Viseur Sellers (Special Advisor for Gender to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College at Oxford University), Silke Studzinsky (former International Civil Parties Lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and head of Victims’ Participation Office, Kosovo Specialist Chambers), and Elisabeth Wood (Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Political Science, Yale University).