Sexualiserat våld i Demokratiska Republiken Kongo (DRK) - en analytisk-eklektisk undersökning av möjliggörande och vidmakthållande faktorer

Sammanfattning: Sexual violence is conducted by armed groups in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a very high extent and with an extreme brutality. Reports from the region often emphasize the victims' experience of the violence from a human rights framework and fail to recognize the context, with its specific social, symbolic, legal and macro-economic attributes. This thesis argues that any unifactorial explanation or analysis is insufficient in providing a satisfactory explanation of the sexual violence. Instead it proposes an analytic- eclectic approach that takes into account a variety of factors developed in different research programs. The used approach is inspired by Rudra Sil and Peter J. Katzenstein who propose eclectic research in order to bridge the theory-policy gap in social sciences and to ”recomplexify” issues that research have simplified by artificially segmenting reality in order to fit researcher's ontological and epistemological assumptions. The resulting causal narrative shows that, by combining explanatory mechanisms developed in various paradigms, a richer and more including picture explaining the institutionalisation of violence in the region appears.