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Using Data Science to Examine Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

The lack of data is a major barrier to comprehending conflict-related sexual violence. Can data science methods analyze news reports promptly and accurately? This compares manual, machine-learning and Generative AI analysis of thousands of media reports.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Shocks and GBV Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
The Weaponization of Sexual Violence: Boko Haram’s Quest for Control Over Territories and Women’s Bodies

This paper examines Boko Haram through a feminist political economy perspective, utilizing primary and secondary data. It traces the group’s changing ideology by analyzing how it exploited gendered socio-economic structures.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Shocks and GBV Religion Sexual Assault
Impact of Social, Political, and Environmental Events on Violence Against Women in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific faces frequent shocks (conflict, disasters, health crises) that increase violence against women. This review of 203 studies highlights urgent need for localised, gender-responsive policies.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Shocks and GBV Policies Climate
Still Falling Short: Aboriginal Children’s Rights and Victoria’s Child Protection System

Victoria’s child protection system continues to harm Aboriginal children and violate their rights, requiring a rights-based reimagining within current Treaty negotiations.

Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Legal Responses Future Lives and VAW First Nations Child Protection Justice System
Technology-Facilitated Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review

This review examines technology-facilitated violence in the Indo-Pacific, highlighting its growing prevalence, impacts, and research gaps, particularly in non-Western contexts.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Harnessing of Technology Indo-Pacific Region Technology-Facilitated Violence
Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls

Preventing violence against women and girls in the Pacific requires holistic, Pacific-centred solutions that address root causes and empower local leadership.

Pillar 1 - Causes/Costs Pillar 2 - Contexts Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Pacific Region Prevention of VAW
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities

This article examines how Lutheran theology in Australia represents gender and frames women and femininity as a problem for the church.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Community Effects of VAW Religion Domestic violence Gender equality
The Gendered Politics of State-Sanctioned Extremism: Evidence from a Study of Buddhist Protectionism

This article investigates a type of state-sanctioned extremism, wherein nationalist movements, supported to varying degrees by governments, seek to “protect” Buddhism across Asia.

Pillar 2 - Contexts Shocks and GBV Extremism Religion Gender equality
Diffusion of Policy to Address Violence Against Women: Implementation Evidence from Indonesia

The paper aims to understand why some but not all subnational governments adopt policies to implement violence against women (VAW) response services.

Pillar 1 - Causes/Costs Impact of Institutions Policies