Why teach?

• The importance of teaching about rape in war and genocide is intensiied because that atrocity has become a strategy used intentionally by combatants to harm individuals and destroy communities. hese utterly destructive atrocities cannot be curbed or prevented unless people are educated about them. Teaching about rape in war and genocide deinitely needs to be done, but it cannot be done well apart from critical relection about aims and assumptions, prospects and pitfalls. What hopes and expectations motivate teachers to enter this rugged terrain? Can teaching about rape in war and genocide help to curb or eliminate such atrocities? Questions such as these govern the relections and suggestions about teaching in this chapter. © The Editor(s) 2016. All rights reserved.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap -- Globaliseringsstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science -- Globalisation Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Assumptions

Education

Pitfalls

Rape as strategy

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