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The extremes of gendered wartime violence are clear; the cruelty, levels, and scale of the violence that enveloped Peru during the 1980s and 1990s are different from most persisting violence in peacetime. Violent conflict is a rupture to daily life in this sense: Few people are killed, tortured, and disappeared in peacetime; few women are repeatedly gang-raped under severe stress and accompanied by other forms of abuse and torture.1 It is important to highlight the extreme nature of wartime violence to acknowledge the suffering of those who were submitted to it and still experience the consequences; all those women and men who testified or kept silence; who wait for formal justice, reparation, or recognition; or who silently suffer. But it is also important to stress the extremity of wartime violence in order to be able to shed light on the parallels between wartime and peacetime violence and, therefore, in order to understand why we might need to talk about a continuum of violence. Sexual violence is not “only” a problem of armed actors and war situations, nor is it an aberration: Acts of sexual violence are not specific to wartime and exceptional in peacetime—as we might say of torture. Sexual violence is widespread in societies formally at peace, and generally high in post-conflict societies.
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Boesten, J. (2014). Peacetime Violence. In: Sexual Violence during War and Peace. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383457_6
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