Sexual violence was described as “massive,” “systematic,” or “innumerable”.Sexual violence is likely related to the conflict, and: The SVAC dataset cannot be used as a means to estimate the number of victims. Note that the coding is primarily based on the qualitative description only when a description lacked any of the relevant key words do we rely on a count of estimated incidents. This is coded according to an ordinal scale, adapted from Cohen (2010 2016) and discussed in Cohen and Nordås (2014).
The prevalence measure gives an estimate of the relative magnitude of sexual violence perpetrated by a conflict actor in a particular year. We also do not code sexual violence perpetrated against members of an armed group’s own organization. Note that we do not code sexual violence perpetrated by civilians, such as intimate partner violence. (2013) as “a group that is identified as pro-government or sponsored by the government (national or subnational), is identified as not being part of the regular security forces, is armed, and has some level of organization.” More information about the militia data can be found here: Īctors such as domestic police, interrogators, border patrol, border police, and checkpoint police are coded as government actors only in cases where there is explicit evidence that the violence perpetrated by these groups is directly conflict-related and/or directed at an insurgent or suspected insurgent. We plan to update the SVAC 3.0 Dataset following the release of the updated Pro-Government Militia Database.Ī pro-government militia is defined by Carey et al. We do not include pro-government militias in the years 2010-2019 because the Pro-Government Militia Database (Carey et al. It also retains pro-government militias for the years 1989-2009. The SVAC 2.0 and 3.0 Datasets (1989-2019) include reports of sexual violence by state forces and rebel groups. (2008) and (3) pro-government militias from Carey et al. In the original SVAC dataset, we included reports of sexual violence by three actor types: (1) state forces, (2) rebel groups, both from the UCDP dataset by Harbom et al.
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