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Applied systematically, rape can be devastating tool of war, said researcher Mia Bloom yesterday during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government...
...lecture entitled “Rape as a Weapon of War,” Bloom, a researcher at Princeton’s Center of International Studies, dismissed the view that rape is an inevitable fact of war, instead arguing that sexual violence is often applied quite methodically and effectively to demoralize civilians in a war zone...
...said rape was more complex than simple exploitation of “wartime spoils,” saying that the systematic use of rape is an “efficient” war tool...
Later this week, a new multimedia presentation will precede the capstone of the event, Thursday’s candlelight vigil. Entitled “A Long Walk Home: A Story of a Rape Survivor,” the presentation chronicles the recovery of rape survivor and third-year graduate student Salamishah M. Tillet through photos, poetry, song and dance...
Tillet also appeared in yesterday’s premiere of “Rape Is...,” a documentary which investigates rape in a cultural context and presents interviews with survivors. Eve Ensler of Vagina Monologues fame and Diane Rosenfeld, a fellow at the Harvard Law School, also appear in the documentary...