Vol. 11 No. 53 (2022)
Articles

Conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to peace and security of the world

Viktoriia Rufanova
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine).
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Volodymyr Shablystyi
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine).
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Serhiy Spilnyk
Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office (Ukraine).
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Nataliia Sydorenko
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine).
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Stanislav Mozol
National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.
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Published 2022-07-04

Keywords

  • armed conflict, peace, security, sexual violence, threat, war.

How to Cite

Rufanova, V., Shablystyi, V., Spilnyk, S., Sydorenko, N., & Mozol, S. (2022). Conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to peace and security of the world. Amazonia Investiga, 11(53), 220–226. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.53.05.22

Abstract

The aim of the article is to conduct a review of the main trends in the impact of sexual violence in the course of armed conflict on the growing threat to world peace and security. The subject of the study is conflict-related sexual violence. The research methodology includes the following methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, logical, normative and dogmatic, monographic, system and structural, summarization. Research results. The concept of sexual violence related to the conflict, provided in international legal acts, is considered, its features and characteristics are studied. The goals of the use of sexual violence during armed or military conflict are established. Practical meaning. It is emphasized that every military conflict is accompanied by sexual violence, despite the adopted international agreements, conventions and resolutions that prohibit such actions. Value / originality. It is noted that conflict-related sexual violence remains a systematic, widespread, pervasive and universal phenomenon that poses a direct threat to world peace and human security.

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