Simic Chapter
What 3 gendered justice gaps does the chapter in Simic's edited book focus on?
accountability, acknowledgement, and reparations gaps
When was Resolution 1325 Adopted by the Security Council?
October 31st, 2000
What are the 2 things Korean "comfort women" survivors and advocates ask for the Japanese government to do?
2- compensate the victims
What action item number in UNSCR 1325 expresses support for a gender perspective within peacebuilding efforts
5
How many women teach/work in the Political Science Dept. at GAC?
6 (pulled from the GAC Poli sci faculty & staff website I'm so so sorry if I'm wrong about this one)
What 2 tribunals were important in recognizing gender when addressing war crimes, specifically in regard to rape?
ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia) and ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda)
True or False: Resolution 1325 is concerned about civilians, particularly women and children, making up a majority of those negatively affected by armed conflict
True
True or False: According to the article, the Japanese government was the only government to practice large-scale military sexual slavery in the 20th century.
True, many other situations of sexual violence within military contexts have been identified. In this article, they were not considered large-scale.
What 2 organizations/declarations does the UNSCR 1325 note when recognizing the need to mainstream a gender perspective in peacekeeping operations
Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Support Operations (S/2000/693)
What country just established the right to abortion in its constitution?
France (with good amount of support across political spectrum too, wish US could do something like that)
What per cent of the 1520 peace agreements from 1990-2016 included gender-specific provisions?
3%
Which action item number calls for the adoption of a gender perspective regarding peace agreements?
8
Why were there so many Korean women forced into work as comfort women compared to other countries/colonies?
population size/density of Korea compared to places like Taiwan
In Min, why was it harder for some of the comfort women to testify about their experiences following Kim Hak-Sun's testimony?
having living family and the prejudice and stigma of being a "sexual victim" aka patriarchy- many comfort women found it difficult to talk about their experiences out of the shame they felt and hid it from many people in their lives as it wasn't something people openly talked about
What are the names of the authors in Ch. 4 of the Simic book?
Bjorkdahl and Selimovic
What was the statute that used the term "gender" for the first time?
Rome Statute
What action item number calls for an end to impunity and the prosecution of those responsible for committing certain crimes relating to sexual and other violence towards women and girls?
11
What does Min identify as the primary and secondary causes of Korean women's problems in postwar adjustments in Korea?
primary- sexual slavery
secondary- gender oppression and Korea's patriarchal ideology
In Simic, what unexplored caveat does the hyper-focus of women victims pair with?
male victims of rape and other kinds of gender-based violence
What year was the Commission on the Status of Women established in the UN?
1946
What is the double-bind between using bottom-up processes in local courts and the presence of foreign international courts?
Bottom-up= may privilege exclusionary and conservative politics and values
Intl.= external influence rejected to protect 'traditional' values
What other cases can we apply this logic to based on what we've read in class?
What is the proposed topic(s) for research to be conducted and have results submitted to the Security Council and all Member States of the UN?
The impact of armed conflict of women and girls, the role of women in peace-building, and the gender dimensions of peace processes and conflict resolution.
How would filling this gap in research benefit peace-building efforts?
In what aspects did Korean comfort women differ from Japanese comfort women?
Japanese women were older, non-virgin women who were mainly already workers in prostitution and entertainment.
What was the reason identified for the Japanese military's lack of virgin Japanese women in the brothels and why does that matter in the context of reconciliation efforts with Korea?
In the Simic chapter case study on Bosnia-Herzegovia, what were the reasons among women and girls for giving their testimony?
Simplified= accountability & punishment, prevention, and truth
How do these requests align with what we can learn from a gendered-perspective of peace-building based on Simic's book?
This U.S. First Lady served as the first Chairperson of the Commission of Human Rights and helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt