Gender and Violence in Haiti

Gender and Violence in Haiti
Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2014
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1306688957

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Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. "Gender and Violence in Haiti" is the product of more than a year of extensive firsthand observations and interviews with the women who have been caught up in the widespread violence plaguing Haiti. Drawing from the experiences of a diverse group of Haitian women, Faedi Duramy finds that both the victims and perpetrators of violence share a common sense of anger and desperation. Untangling the many factors that cause these women to commit violence, from self-defense to revenge, she identifies concrete measures that can lead them to feel vindicated and protected by their communities. Faedi Duramy vividly conveys the horrifying conditions pervading Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake. But "Gender and Violence in Haiti" also carries a message of hope--and shows what local authorities and international relief agencies can do to help the women of Haiti.

Gender and Violence in Haiti

Gender and Violence in Haiti
Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780813563169

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Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. Gender and Violence in Haiti is the product of more than a year of extensive firsthand observations and interviews with the women who have been caught up in the widespread violence plaguing Haiti. Drawing from the experiences of a diverse group of Haitian women, Faedi Duramy finds that both the victims and perpetrators of violence share a common sense of anger and desperation. Untangling the many factors that cause these women to commit violence, from self-defense to revenge, she identifies concrete measures that can lead them to feel vindicated and protected by their communities. Faedi Duramy vividly conveys the horrifying conditions pervading Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake. But Gender and Violence in Haiti also carries a message of hopeā€”and shows what local authorities and international relief agencies can do to help the women of Haiti.

From Gender Based violence to Women s Violence in Haiti

From Gender Based violence to Women s Violence in Haiti
Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Abused women
ISBN: OCLC:654125295

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From Gender based Violence to Women s Violence in Haiti

From Gender based Violence to Women s Violence in Haiti
Author: Benedetta Faedi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2010
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:652163988

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This dissertation explores the conditions, incentives, and rationale that induce women victims of sexual violence to join armed groups and to become involved in community violence. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observation and focus group discussions collected during over one year of fieldwork in Haiti, the findings presented in this study reflect an attempt to deepen the understanding of women's decision-making processes, the interplay between gender-based women and women's violence, and, ultimately, the extent to which female aggression, committed in a context of armed violence, should be interpreted as a survival strategy or a deliberate choice for retaliation. Based on the empirical evidence collected, the three major factors that motivate women and girls to engage in criminal and community violence included their need to protect themselves and their families, their resentment toward state negligence and denial of their plight, and their dysfunctional desire to attain personal and social respect through retaliation. Important implications for legal and policy interventions may be derived from such an analysis. If women's violence is to be understood as a survival strategy within the coercive context of armed violence, the current Haitian legislation that provides solely for girls' and women's prosecution for the offense of association with armed groups, is at the very least inadequate. Conversely, according to international humanitarian and human rights legal norms, specific programs, along the lines of those implemented in other countries affected by armed conflict, should be effectively designed to dispel women's anger and resentment towards forms of community reconciliation as well as to adequately reintegrate them into society.

International Perspectives on Gender Based Violence

International Perspectives on Gender Based Violence
Author: Madhumita Pandey
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9783031428678

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Democratic Insecurities

Democratic Insecurities
Author: Erica James
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520947917

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Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.

Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence

Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence
Author: Rashmi Goel,Leigh Goodmark
Publsiher: Interpersonal Violence
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780199346578

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This volume documents the global scope of gender violence, from countries where the legal response is just emerging to countries with long-standing law and policy regimes. Informed by international human rights law, it examines policy successes and failures, as well as grassroots efforts, to elicit a robust and proactive response from China to Chile. From the work of local activists to stem the tide of sexual and intimate partner violence after the Haitian earthquake of 2005, to the efforts to eradicate dowry-related violence in India, to the public education campaigns to prevent domestic violence in Scotland, it offers a comprehensive vision of efforts around the world to eradicate gender based violence - and a new lens through which to consider US efforts to address this kind of violence.

Applying Anthropology to Gender Based Violence

Applying Anthropology to Gender Based Violence
Author: Jennifer R. Wies,Hillary J. Haldane
Publsiher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781498509046

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, social work, and medical fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and local responses can better inform a collaborative global response to the problem of gender-based violence. With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, it provides ample evidence that richly textured and qualitatively informed research can illuminate work that is more quantitative in scope. The volume illustrates the various ways scholars, practitioners, frontline workers, and policy makers can work together to end forms of violence in their local communities. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that the ways top-down responses to violence have been inadequate, and that solutions are available when the local historical, political, and social context is taken into consideration. Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence.