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Legacy of war: ‘Hyper-masculinity’ drives sexual violence harming teenage girls, warns think tank
June 2014
As world experts gather in London for the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s leading development think-tank warns that mothers raped during conflicts now face the trauma of seeing their daughters also become victims of sexual assault, as the ‘hyper-masculinity’ sparked by war persists into peacetime.
Researchers from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) interviewed survivors in Liberia, where the civil war ended in 2003. During the war, it is estimated that up to 77% of women experienced sexual violence, but today Liberia continues to have one of the highest incidences of sexual assault in the world, and most of the survivors are teenage girls.
ODI experts say that aid donors at the London summit must take the unusual step of committing to long-term approaches – perhaps as long as 20 years – if sexual violence with impunity normalised during war-time is to be reversed…