Publication

The 2012 Human Security Report challenges a number of widely held assumptions about the nature of sexual violence during war and the effect of conflict on education systems. Part I reviews the fragmentary data on sexual violence against adults and children in wartime, finding that the mainstream narrative exaggerates the prevalence of combat-perpetrated sexual violence, while largely ignoring the far more pervasive sexual violence perpetrated in wartime by family members and acquaintances. Turning to the war on education, the Report shows that education outcomes actually improve on average during wartime. Part II of the report reviews global and regional trends in the incidence and severity of organized violence.