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The GIWPS video library includes interviews with experts around the world, summaries of our original research, and highlights from our high-level events. Our signature Profiles in Peace oral histories project captures the often untold, personal stories of peacebuilders. These profiles include presidents, ambassadors, and men and women on the front lines of peace activism and negotiations across the globe, all of whom have much to teach us.

How to Use U.N. Sanctions to Stop Rape in War

How to Use U.N. Sanctions to Stop Rape in War

Profiles in Peace

Sexual violence is prevalent in many modern conflicts—sometimes even used intentionally by government forces or militias to achieve military objectives. In this video, GIWPS' Sophie Huvé explains an under-utilized tool to prevent rape in war and coerce perpetrators to change their behavior: United Nations sanctions. Huvé discusses her review of eight sanctions regimes, which reveals…

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