Technical Competency
Sexual Violence and Stigma Sensitisation
Professional Development:
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.
UK Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), “International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict” (2nd Ed.) (‘IP2’), Chapter 2, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-protocol-on-the-documentation-and-investigation-of-sexual-violence-in-conflict
UK Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), “Principles for Global Action on Tackling CRSV Stigma” (2017), available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/launch-of-the-principles-for-global-action-on-tackling-the-stigma-of-sexual-violence-in-conflict?
IICI, Country Supplements to IP2 for Iraq, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka (2018), available at https://iici.global/publications-and-resources/ (Iraq Supplement available in English and Arabic; Myanmar, in English and Burmese; and Sri Lanka, in English, Sinhala and Tamil)
Synergy for Justice, Syria Country Supplement to IP2 (2023), available at https://synergyforjustice.org/syria-supplement
Synergy for Justice, “CARSV Stigma in Justice Toolkit” (2023), Introduction Chapter, Myth Debunker and Guide to Non-Stigmatising Language, available at https://toolkit.synergyforjustice.org/home
Mukwege Foundation Redline Initiative, “Guidebook on State Obligations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence”, Further Reading Section, available at https://www.endcrsv.org/guidebook/further-readings/
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, The Hague Principles, available at https://thehagueprinciples.org/
United Nations, “Handbook for United Nations Field Missions on Preventing and Responding to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” (2020), available at https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/default/files/document/files/2022/08/united-nationscrsv-handbook.pdf
UNITAR, Prevention and Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Micro Course, available at https://event.unitar.org/full-catalog/prevention-and-response-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-micro-course
Maureen Murphy, Erika Fraser, Guy Lamb and Lillian Artz, “Evidence for Action: What Works to Prevent Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” (2022), What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: Impact at Scale programme, available at https://www.datocms-assets.com/112720/1723063693-crsv-flagship-report.pdf
Save the Children, “The Guiding Framework on Accountability for Violations and Crimes Affecting Children in Situation of Armed Conflict” (2024), available at https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the-guiding-framework-on-accountability-for-violations-and-crimes-affecting-children-in-situation-of-armed-conflict
ICRC, “How Does Stigma Impact Victims/Survivors of Sexual Violence During Armed Conflict?” Briefer and Event (2025), available at https://www.icrc.org/en/event/event-shifting-stigma-prevention-and-protection-victimssurvivors-sexual-violence
Elisabeth Wood: (most articles behind pay wall)
“Variation in wartime sexual violence: Rape during war is not inevitable” (2012), Estudios Socio-Juridicos, 14(1):19-57, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262434315_Variation_in_wartime_sexual_violence_Rape_during_war_is_not_inevitable
“Conflict-related sexual violence and the policy implications of recent research” (2015), International Review of the Red Cross 96(894): 1-22, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276388175_Conflict-related_sexual_violence_and_the_policy_implications_of_recent_research
“Rape as a Practice of War: Toward a Typology of Political Violence” (2018), Politics and Society 46(4), available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324992993_Rape_as_a_Practice_of_War_Toward_a_Typology_of_Political_Violence
Ragnhild Nordas:
with Dara Kay Cohen, “Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989-2009, (2014), Journal of Peace Research, 51(3), 418-428, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274301025_Sexual_violence_in_armed_conflict_Introducing_the_SVAC_dataset_1989-2009
“Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” (2021), Annual Review of Political Science, 24(1): 193-211, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351572954_Conflict-Related_Sexual_Violence
“Recent Advances in the Study of CRSV” (2024), Current Psychiatry Reports, 27(1):66-75, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387438754_Recent_Advances_in_the_Study_of_Conflict-Related_Sexual_Violence