[Redcercana] Fwd: Material educativo sobre violencia militar contra las mujeres

[yolajb_educarueca]

Hola mujeres,

Me ha llegado este mensaje con la propuesta de un proyecto que, creo, 
merece la pena apoyar y si es posible llenar de contenido. Espero que 
alguna de vosotras encuentre el tiempo y el interés (está en inglés) 
para leerlo.

Un fuerte abrazo,

Yolanda JB - EducaRueca



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Asunto: 	Material educativo sobre violencia militar contra las mujeres
Fecha: 	Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:05:59 +0200
De: 	Cecile Barbeito Thonon <Cecile.Barbeito en uab.cat>
Para: 	yolanda jb <yolajb en educarueca.org>



Hola Yolanda


¿Cómo estás? Espero que bien, o todo lo bien que se pueda estar en este contexto que se supera cada día a peor.

Soy Cécile de Barcelona. Te escribo porque me he metido en un proyecto, y he pensado que igual te interesaría participar, o que sabrías a quién reenviarlo.

Pego la descripción en inglés que ya la tengo redactada:

I am writing to you with a (non paid) proposal:

The proposal is to participate in the elaboration of a training guide about "military violence on women". We are looking for female peace educators that would be ready to develop a teaching unit for adults on one of the delicate and challenging issues that are listed below. Betty Reardon is launching and coordinating this proposal.

Teaching units should refer to:

- Military prostitution and the sexual exploitation of women have been features of warfare throughout history. At present brothels can be found around military bases and at the sites of peace-keeping operations. Prostitution - usually work of desperation for women – is openly tolerated, even organized by the military, as essential to the “morale” of the armed forces. Sexual services are deemed essential provisions for waging war to strengthen the “fighting will” of the troops. Military sex workers are frequently victims of rape, various forms of physical abuse and murder.

- Trafficking and sexual slavery (this subject will be developed by Betty) is a form of VAW that stems from the idea that sexual services are necessary to fighting troops. The case of the “comfort women,” enslaved by the Japanese military during WWII is the best known, perhaps the most egregious instance of this type of military VAW. More recently, trafficked women have been literally enslaved in conflict and post-conflict peace-keeping operations. Women’s bodies are used as military supplies. Viewing and treating women as commodities is absolute objectification. Objectification of other human beings is standard practice in making war acceptable to combatants and civil populations of nations at war.

- Random rape in armed conflict and around military bases, an expected and accepted consequence of armed conflict, illustrates that militarism in any form increases the possibilities of sexual violence against women in militarized areas in “peace time” as well as war time. This form of military VAW has been well documented by Okinawa Women Act against Military Violence. OWAAMV has recorded the reported rapes of local women by American military personnel from the invasion in 1945 to the present. The consequence of the misogyny that infects military training, when it occurs in war it functions as an act of intimidation and humiliation of the enemy.

- Strategic and mass rapes - like all sexual assaults – intends to inflict violence as a mean of humiliating, not only the actual victims, but, most especially their societies, ethnic groups, and/or nations. It is also intended to lessen the adversary’s will to fight. As a planned assault on the enemy, large scale rape is a form of military violence against women, usually inflicted en masse in attacks that demonstrate the objectification of women as property of the enemy, military targets rather than human beings. It serves to shatter the social cohesion of the adversary in that women are the base of societal relationships and domestic order.

- Military arms as instruments of VAW are used in the rape, mutilation, and murder of non-combatant women. Weapons are often the emblems of manhood, conceived within patriarchy, as tools for enforcing male power and dominance. The numbers and destructive power of weapons are a source of national pride in the militarized state security system, argued to provide defensive deterrence. The militarized masculinity of patriarchal cultures makes access to weapons an enticement to many young men to enlist in the military.

- Impregnation as ethnic cleansinghas been designated by some human rights advocates as a form of genocide. Significant instances of this type of MVAW have occurred before the eyes of the world. The military objective of these rapes is to undermine the adversary in several ways, the main one being by reducing the future numbers of their people and replacing them with the offspring of the perpetrators, robbing them of a future and a reason to continue to resist.

- Sexual torture, psychological as well as physical, is meant to terrorize the civilian population of an enemy nation, ethnic group or an opposing political group, intimidating them so as to gain compliance to occupation or to discourage civilian support of the military and strategic actions of the opposing group. It is often inflicted on the wives and female family members of opposing political forces, as has happened in military dictatorships. It manifests the general misogyny of patriarchy intensified during war so as to reinforce objectification of women and “otherness” of the enemy.

- Sexual violence in military ranks and domestic violence in military families has recently become more widely publicized through the courage of victims, women who have risked their military careers and further harassment by speaking out. Nothing makes more obvious the integral relationship of VAW to war, preparation for it and post conflict than its prevalence within the ranks of the military. While not officially condoned or encouraged, it has been allowed to continue, serving to maintain the secondary and subservient position of women, and the intensification of aggressive masculinity, idealized as military virtue.

- Domestic violence and spouse murder by combat veterans occurs on the return of veterans of combat. This form of MVAW is especially dangerous because of the presence of weapons in the home. Believed to be a consequence of both combat training and PTSD, DV and spouse abuse in military families derives from the systemic and integral role of VAW in the psychology of some warriors and symbolizes extreme and aggressive masculinity.

So if you are interested and have time to participate, please write me back so I can inform you better. Feel free to forward this e-mail to people you think could be interested in participating in such a project.

I look forward hearing from you.

La idea era que la gente que escribiera hablara de temas que le son cercanos (en especial el tema de las bases militares). ¿No sé sitú conocerás a alguien que tenga este perfil?

Cualquier ayuda y/o colaboración será bienvenida.

muchas gracias!

  Cécile





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