13:15 - 15:30
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Alon Yakter
Discussant/s:
Katharina Pfaff
Meeting Room E

Amelie Freiberg
Resources and Rape: Patterns of wartime rape in activist insurgencies

Andreas Juon
Internal minorities in ethno-territorial homelands: More likely to mobilize, more likely to become victimized?

Liran Harsgor, Alon Yakter
Do Shared External Threats Foster Greater Assistance Among Groups in Conflict? Evidence from Israel During COVID-19

Dennis Atzenhofer
From the Beer Halls to the Streets: Elite Influence and Political Violence in Weimar Germany
Resources and Rape: Patterns of wartime rape in activist insurgencies
Amelie Freiberg
Triniy College Dublin

One of the most horrendous outcomes of civil wars is wartime rape. The variation in the intensity of wartime rape is the main puzzle in this research. This dissertation is focused on activist insurgencies and builds on the combatant socialization theory. It will investigate how social cohesion in activist insurgencies influences wartime rape. The argument concerns differential resource endowments explaining the variation of sexual violence in activist insurgencies. This paper will use new data and examine the pattern of wartime rape with a new approach. The results of the analysis indicate that activist insurgencies’ means of socialisation depend on available resources. The socialisation of fighters can be achieved through the combatant socialisation process or though political education