![]() Using secondary data analysis, this study examines how gendered dimensions of the Syrian conflict interact with global economic and local state/military practices to reinforce existing patterns of violence against women and girls and expose them to new forms of gender-based violence. The foreign policy implications of this security narrative are reviewed within the broader context of International Peace and Development. ![]() ![]() It is argued that the international political economy of this conflict is being obscured by a biopolitical security agenda that prioritizes CRSV. Using an original case study, discourse analysis is used to unpack how policymakers, activists and the news media construct a ‘truth’ about rape and sexual violence committed in Syria. Drawing upon ideas about the fetishization of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), this article unpacks the language used within this security paradigm. The ‘rape-as-a-weapon’ of war narrative has been particularly influential in the securitization of sexual violence.
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