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Meanings of Violence:. Cross Cultural Perspective. Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink. eds. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 256 pp.

Mass rape is a common but not universal occurrence in ethnic or nationalist conflicts. Using South Asian and Bosnian data, in this article I argue that mass rape is likely when such conflicts take place during the partition of a territory and its population, when the state itself is liminal, both its territory and control over it uncertain. In conflicts in which the state is not itself threatened, and thus groups feel that they will continue to coexist, there is some evidence that rape is avoided, even when murder is accepted. However, such instances of rape avoidance are largely unstudied, in large part because of the focus on the violence of mass rape. Further, this focus on violence tends toward classifying all sexual relations between groups whose members have participated in mass rape as improper, thus depriving women who may not wish to rejoin their natal groups of agency, [rape, genocide, violence, India, Yugoslavia/Bosnia]

Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Ideology and Community in. Central Bosnian Village. Tone Bringa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.281 pp.

Analyzes ruling in the first case tried before the ICT for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in context of the question of statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the nature of the conflict and its combatants; since 1974, chiefly. Dusko Tadic was found not guilty of 20 of 31 counts, and the other 11 were determined to be inapplicable, because the conflict was considered internal rather than international, and, therefore, not covered under the Geneva Convention.