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6. The Framing of the Terrorist Threat in Health Contingency: Implications for Response

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Nilsen, Lisa Govasli

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Terrorist attacks threaten the security of states and individuals, and often spur widespread state responses once they have occurred. Recent research has focused on health contingency in relation to terrorism and unveiled divergence in terms of how European countries approach this task. To understand more about this divergence, it is relevant to investigate how states define the issue of terrorism in contingency policies. The current study utilized theories of framing as part of policymaking and document analysis with a thematic analysis approach, to scrutinize to what extent terrorism was framed as a security issue in health contingency in relation to terrorist attacks in Norway and France, and how this affected policy outcomes. The analysis unveiled that a securitized frame was not prominent in the Norwegian approach to health contingency. In the French material, however, terrorism was described as a threat to national security. Second, terrorism response within the healthcare field was described as a form of “nonmilitary defense,” clearly positioning the healthcare system in the response to this national security threat. The framing of terrorism in policy documents was linked to diverging policy responses in the two countries. The most distinct difference is that victims of terrorism hold particular rights in France, but not in Norway. This entails that in France, the definition of terrorism, and whether specific events are defined as terrorism or not, in part become decisive for the help received.

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2024
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10. Patterns of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Colombia

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Nilsen, Lisa Govasli

Subjects
violence, wartime, Colombia, sexual
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Sexual violence has been perpetrated as a strategy or practice in a number of conflicts across the globe, but research has found that the prevalence and practice of wartime sexual violence varies greatly between different conflicts, and between different armed actors within the same war (Cohen, Green, & Wood, 2013; Cohen & Nordås, 2014; Wood, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012). The purpose of this project was to map out patterns of wartime sexual violence in the ongoing internal conflict in Colombia, in order to contribute to an emerging literature on the variation of wartime sexual violence at the conflict level. This task was taken on with an inductive starting point in which analytical categories were obtained from the empirical material, in dialogue with existing theory. Patterns were operationalized through focusing on three interrelated factors: the contexts in which sexual violence was perpetrated during warfare; the motivation of the perpetrators of this violence; and claimed and obtained identities of its victims. The analysis uncovered three main functions of sexual violence in Colombia: to extract information and intelligence, to secure and exert territorial control, and to control armed group behavior. The term functions was found suitable to label these categories, as it enables us to comprehend that the results of wartime sexual violence might be both the purpose, but also the consequence of the act. This finding warns us that the propensity within scholarly and advocacy literature for framing wartime sexual violence within the weapon of war framework, runs the risk of limiting our understanding of this complex phenomenon.

Published
2014

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