Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation

Co-edited with Kimberly Theidon and Dyan Mazurana, this volume brings together scholars and practitioners working on children born of conflict-related sexual violence — a population that sits awkwardly inside the categories humanitarian and legal systems use to allocate recognition and redress.

My chapter examines the Rwanda case, tracing how frameworks of recognition — who counts as a victim, whose harm is legible to courts and commissions — shape who ultimately receives justice and repair, and who is left to carry the consequences privately.