%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡®war¡¯/¡®not
%A Harriet Gray
%J The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
%@ 1467-856X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1369148118802470
%X While recognising the importance of policy designed to tackle conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, scholars have increasingly critiqued such policies for failing sufficiently to apprehend the multiple forms of this violence ¨C from rape deployed as a weapon of war to domestic violence ¨C as interrelated oppressions located along a continuum. In this article, I explore a connected but distinct line of critique, arguing that sexual and gender-based violence policies are also limited by a narrow understanding of how gender-based violences relate to war itself. Drawing on an analysis of the British Government¡¯s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, I identify a key distinction which emerges between those types of sexual and gender-based violence which are considered to be part of war, and those which are not. This division, I suggest, closes down space for recognising how war is also enacted within private spaces
%K armed conflict
%K conflict-related SGBV
%K domestic violence
%K gender
%K preventing sexual violence initiative
%K private sphere
%K PSVI
%K public sphere
%K sexual and gender-based violence
%K war
%K women peace and security agenda
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148118802470