Forced Migration Review Call for Papers
Issue 27 – to be published in November 2006 – will include a feature section
on Sexual violence in conflict and beyond, exploring the challenges and
opportunities for combating sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and
development recovery contexts. FMR27 will be produced in collaboration with
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and will build on momentum created
by a June 2006 symposium jointly convened by UNFPA, the European Commission
and the Government of Belgium.
The FMR authors would welcome practice-oriented submissions highlighting key
issues and challenges, best practices, innovative programmes and
recommendations. Authors may wish to present national case studies on
responding to sexual violence and/or to consider specifically:
- the consequences of conflict-related sexual violence on women’s physical,
sexual and mental health
- methodological challenges for assessing and monitoring the problem
- improving data collection on sexual violence in conflict-affected
situations: overcoming stigma and the culture of silence
- assessment of current frameworks and strategies for prevention and response
developed by international humanitarian agencies
- changing behaviour and attitudes towards sexual violence
- funding challenges: consequences of the trend towards providing assistance
through humanitarian and transition funding mechanisms and general and sector
budget support: do these new aid modalities risk sidelining effective
responses?
- national strategies to combat sexual violence: how effectively do current
national development plans address gender-based violence?
- integration of health care, social support, security and legal redress
- role of peacemakers and humanitarian community: perpetrators or protectors?
- meeting protection needs: developing multi-sectoral analysis of risk factors
and consequences
- ensuring appropriate security and protection measures are in place to
respond to reported incidents and to assist survivors
- responsive reproductive health care services for survivors of sexual violence
- formal and informal psychosocial support services
- holding governments to account: can action against sexual violence become a
governance performance indicator?
Deadline for submission of articles: 8 September 2005. Maximum length: 2,500
words. For author guidelines, see www.fmreview.org/writing.htm. Contact the
Editors, Marion Couldrey and Dr Tim Morris, at: Forced Migration Review,
Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of
Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK. Email: [log in to unmask] ; Tel:
+44 (0)1865 280700; Fax: +44 (0)1865 270721; Skype: fmreview
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