Can the International Criminal Court prevent sexual violence in armed conflict?

IF 1 2区 社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
M. Broache, Juhi Kore
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Abstract

Abstract Human rights activists, international organizations, and certain governments have championed prosecutions as a strategy to prevent conflict-related sexual violence, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) has focused extensively on prosecuting sexual violence crimes during its first two decades of operations. However, even as a growing body of empirical evidence suggests that the ICC contributes to improved human rights practices and the prevention of other atrocity crimes, such as violence against civilians, claims concerning the preventive effects of prosecutions on sexual violence remain largely untested. The purpose of this article is to test these claims. To this end, we analyzed the effects of ICC jurisdiction, interventions, and cross-case actions on sexual violence by government forces in intrastate conflicts from 1989 to 2018, using the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset. Contrary to the optimistic claims of proponents of prosecutions, we found that ICC jurisdiction and cross-case actions have negligible effects for this category of actors. We also found that ICC interventions are associated with increased sexual violence by government forces in intrastate conflicts. These findings suggest that prevention might require alternative—and, in some cases, potentially costlier—interventions.
国际刑事法院能否防止武装冲突中的性暴力?
摘要人权活动家、国际组织和某些政府一直支持将起诉作为预防与冲突有关的性暴力的战略,国际刑事法院在其运作的头二十年中广泛关注起诉性暴力犯罪。然而,尽管越来越多的经验证据表明,国际刑事法院有助于改善人权做法和预防其他暴行罪行,如对平民的暴力行为,但关于起诉对性暴力的预防作用的说法在很大程度上仍未得到检验。本文的目的是检验这些主张。为此,我们使用武装冲突中性暴力(SVAC)数据集分析了1989年至2018年国际刑事法院的管辖权、干预措施和跨案件行动对政府军在州内冲突中的性暴力的影响。与起诉支持者的乐观说法相反,我们发现,国际刑事法院的管辖权和跨案行动对这类行为者的影响可以忽略不计。我们还发现,国际刑事法院的干预措施与政府军在州内冲突中增加的性暴力有关。这些发现表明,预防可能需要其他干预措施,在某些情况下,可能需要更昂贵的干预措施。
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