Technical Competency

Sexual Violence and Stigma Sensitisation

Developing this Competency

As an individual or as part of continuing professional development of personnel, there are some resources which can be valuable in supporting the development and capacity building around this Murad Code Technical Competency:

• International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict (2nd Ed. Chapter 2), plus country specific Supplements for Syria, Iraq, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.

• Guidebook on State Obligations for CRSV Further Reading section

• The Hague Principles, WIGJ

• UN Handbook for Field Missions on Preventing and Responding to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

• UNITAR's Micro-Course on SGBV & CRSV

• “What Works to Prevent Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)” Report

• Save the Children – Guiding Framework – Accountability for grave violations affecting children Save the Children’s Resource Centre

• UK’s Principles for Global Action on Tackling CRSV Stigma 

• Synergy for Justice Stigma Toolkit (Introductory Chapters) and tools The Myth Debunker and Guide to Non-stigmatising language.

• ICRC Stigma Reduction Recommendations

Professor Elisabeth Wood (some are paywalled):

• Variations in Sexual Violence: rape during war is not inevitable (2012)

• CRSV and Policy Implications of Recent Research 2015

• Rape as a Practice of War: Towards a Typology of Political Violence (2018)

Ragnild Nordas:

• Sexual violence in armed conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989–2009 (2014)

• Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Annual Review 2021

• Recent Advances in the Study of CRSV (2024)

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