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Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop–The Exploitation of Women in Genocide: How to Bring a Delicate Subject into the Classroom

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

In the light of the many accounts of sexual vulnerability, abuse and rape that occurred during the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we have come to accept that sexual violence is an intrinsic feature of genocide. No longer is the issue a taboo. Survivors, witnesses, and scholars have become less reticent to discuss […]