"The chaos of modern warfare is prevalent, and many times the origins and purpose of CRSV get contested. These difficulties are compounded by attribution. Survivors often struggle to identify perpetrators for a myriad of reasons consistent with threats of further violence or attempts made by attackers to conceal identity and disorient survivors. The Dinah Project's recent framework highlights how layered evidentiary approaches, which include unit location data,"
"Medical and forensic documentation is extremely challenging to obtain active conflict zones, where many survivors have either been murdered and mutilated, displaced, or avoidant of medical care due to severe trauma and stigma. Survivor testimony has been the spine of CRSV prosecutions, but reliance on single testimonies are impractical for most survivors facing severe trauma. Fragmented memory, delayed reporting, and narrative construction issues, despite being well-researched clinical responses, tend to invite credibility attacks,"
Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is often difficult to prosecute because wartime chaos, contested origins, and attribution problems prevent identifying individual perpetrators. Survivors frequently cannot name attackers due to threats, concealment tactics, displacement, trauma, or stigma, including heightened stigma for men, boys, and LGBTQ+ persons. Medical and forensic evidence is scarce in active conflict zones, and reliance on single survivor testimony faces credibility challenges from fragmented memories, delayed reporting, and narrative construction. The Dinah Project proposes layered evidentiary methods—unit location data, consistent modus operandi, communications intercepts, and organizational structures—to support derivative liability and depict CRSV as strategic implementation.
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