Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Transitional Justice
Region: No Region
Year: 2009
Citation: Rubio-Marín, Ruth. "Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression." In The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations, edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin, 381-402, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Sub-Categories: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Transitional Justice
Region: No Region
Year: 2009
Citation: Rubio-Marín, Ruth. "Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression." In The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations, edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin, 381-402, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Executive Summary
Policies of compensation, restitution, or rehabilitation of victims can be used to help transform inherited gender-based stigmas and hierarchies that predated the conflict, but they can also affirm and reproduce those stigmas and hierarchies.