Luedke Alicia Elaine, Logan Hannah Faye
Vanier Canadian Graduate Scholar and PhD Student in Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Researcher, Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
Disasters. 2018 Jan;42 Suppl 1:S99-S118. doi: 10.1111/disa.12273.
One of the most widely covered aspects of the current conflict in South Sudan has been the use sexual violence by rival factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and other armed groups. While this has had the positive effect of ensuring that sexual violence is an integral component of intervention strategies in the country, it has also had a number of unintended consequences. This paper demonstrates how the narrow focus on sexual violence as a 'weapon of war', and the broader emergency lens through which the plight of civilians, especially women, has been viewed, are overly simplistic, often neglecting the root causes of such violence. More specifically, it highlights how dominant discourses on sexual violence in South Sudan's conflict have disregarded the historically violent civil-military relations that have typified the SPLM/A's leadership, and the structural violence connected with the local political economy of bride wealth and the associated commodification of feminine identities and bodies.
南苏丹当前冲突中受到广泛报道的一个方面，是苏丹人民解放运动/军队（苏人解/军）敌对派别及其他武装团体实施的性暴力行为。虽然这产生了积极影响，确保性暴力成为该国干预战略的一个组成部分，但也带来了一些意想不到的后果。本文表明，将性暴力狭隘地视为“战争武器”，以及通过更宽泛的紧急情况视角来看待平民尤其是妇女的困境，这种做法过于简单化，常常忽视了此类暴力的根源。更具体地说，它强调了南苏丹冲突中性暴力的主流话语如何忽视了苏人解/军领导层一贯存在的历史上暴力的军民关系，以及与彩礼的地方政治经济及女性身份和身体相关商品化相联系的结构性暴力。
