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Rethinking Transitional Gender JusticeUsing War to Shift Peacetime Norms: The Example of Forced Marriage in Sierra Leone

Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice: Using War to Shift Peacetime Norms: The Example of Forced... [In this chapter, I explore the interaction between institutions of international criminal justice and local women’s rights struggles in post-conflict societies. Using the example of the forced marriage prosecutions by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), I demonstrate the failure of international institutions to provide ‘gender justice’ through their reinforcement of conservative, patriarchal social and cultural norms. At the same time, I point to ways in which some women in Sierra Leone have made strategic and somewhat subversive use of the SCSL’s judgments to support their own social and political claims. This points to a potential for international law to contribute to struggles for social change beyond the confines of institutional settings and elite actors’ interventions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Rethinking Transitional Gender JusticeUsing War to Shift Peacetime Norms: The Example of Forced Marriage in Sierra Leone

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Shackel, Rita; Fiske, Lucy
Grewal, Kiran
Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice — Oct 9, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-77889-1
Pages
77 –95
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-77890-7_5
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Abstract

[In this chapter, I explore the interaction between institutions of international criminal justice and local women’s rights struggles in post-conflict societies. Using the example of the forced marriage prosecutions by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), I demonstrate the failure of international institutions to provide ‘gender justice’ through their reinforcement of conservative, patriarchal social and cultural norms. At the same time, I point to ways in which some women in Sierra Leone have made strategic and somewhat subversive use of the SCSL’s judgments to support their own social and political claims. This points to a potential for international law to contribute to struggles for social change beyond the confines of institutional settings and elite actors’ interventions.]

Published: Oct 9, 2018

Keywords: Forced Marriage; Special Court For Sierra Leone (SCSL); Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC); Bush Wives; Revolutionary United Front (RUF)

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