Jennifer Leaning is senior advisor on international and policy
studies at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, professor of the practice of
international health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and assistant professor of
medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
"Rape and sexual violence have always been a feature of war and
conflict across time and cultures," says Leaning, who chairs this panel. "Societal norms and
legal constraints have evolved in the face of this violence, and yet these behaviors
persist. The potential for these behaviors and their impact on the victims vary with
different war tactics, disciplinary regimes, and design and use of weapons."
Women are not the only ones who experience sexual violence. According
to Leaning, "the infliction and perpetration of this kind of war violence extends to men, as
well as women."
Leaning concludes by introducing the
panelists.
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