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A Socio-Legal Intersectional Analysis of the Role of Technology in the Investigation of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence / ULICK EGAN
Swansea University Author: ULICK EGAN
DOI (Published version): 10.23889/SUthesis.65554
Abstract
The role of technology, including the use of digital open sources, is rapidly expanding in international criminal investigations. Modern armed conflicts are being documented in a manner never before possible and the amount of relevant contemporaneous information available to investigators would have...
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Swansea, Wales, UK
2023
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| Institution: | Swansea University |
| Degree level: | Doctoral |
| Degree name: | Ph.D |
| Supervisor: | Rees, Y. M; Coleman, M. |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65554 |
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The role of technology, including the use of digital open sources, is rapidly expanding in international criminal investigations. Modern armed conflicts are being documented in a manner never before possible and the amount of relevant contemporaneous information available to investigators would have been inconceivable in the past. Access to technology further affords opportunities to those affected by conflict-related violence to better document and illuminate the crimes perpetrated against them. This new reality potentially provides possibilities to transform and democratize international criminal justice processes and help better secure accountability for atrocity crimes. However, the use of technologies may simultaneously inflict invisibilities and perpetuate bias, including regarding the investigation and documentation of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV). It is therefore crucial that international criminal investigators and prosecutors of SGBV atrocity crimes employ an ethical, comprehensive, and consistent methodological approach to the use of technology. It is submitted that approaches based on intersectional and gender theories provide the most complete methodological approach, one cognizant of the lived realities of survivors and sensitive to the potentials for harm. Such approaches will help minimize invisibilities and bias and provide investigators with the most comprehensive and relevant contextual information necessary to investigate these crimes ethically, responsibly, and competently. This thesis examines the historical and contemporaneous invisibilization of SGBV atrocity crimes and outlines arguments for, and approaches to, the use of intersectional theoretical methodologies and analyses in the use of digital open sources for the investigation of SGBV atrocity crimes. |
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Investigations, Open Source, Sexual, Gender, Violence, Conflict |
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Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law |