Moral Injury and Relational Harm

Rather than focusing on the legal and political questions that surround genocidal rape, in this paper I treat a vital area of inquiry that has received much less attention: the moral significance of genocidal rape. My aim is to augment existing moral accounts of rape in order to address the specific contexts of genocidal rape. I move beyond understanding rape primarily as a violation of an individual's interests or agential abilities. The account I offer builds on these approaches (as well as on a pluralist approach), by arguing that rape, as a moral injury, negatively affects the very human dignity of victims. My account also emphasizes the relational harm that marks genocidal rape.

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Work Title Moral Injury and Relational Harm
Subtitle Analyzing Rape in Darfur
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  1. Sarah Clark Miller
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  1. rape
  2. relationality
  3. sexual violence
  4. moral harm
  5. genocide
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Work Type Article
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2009.01468.x
Deposited October 15, 2019

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