INTERNATIONAL RELATION AND GENDER SECURITY: TACKLING SEX VIOLENCE ON THE CASE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO WITH UN RESOLUTION 1325 (1990-2018)

Abstract

Over the past decade, Sexual Violence during conflict has gotten a lot of attention from researchers, advocates and journalists of International Relations. Until now, researchers have largely concentrated on either examining why fighters commit Sexual Violence during war or how conflict-driven Sexual Violence affects its victims. This thesis explores how conflict-driven Sexual Violence committed by the rebel forces in the recent violent history of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) affects its victims. Until now, the Democratic Republic of Congo is known as the “Rape Capital of the World” famous for the Sexual Violence that happened in the violent history of DRC and even now, some part of DRC still has an insecure environment in which Sexual Violence may happens to anyone that seems vulnerable.This research explores how the explanations of Sexual Violencein relation to notions of different view of Masculinities. Ultimately, to study the cases of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with special emphasis on the nineties for the first and to the present time in the case of the second from a Feminism theory perspective of International Relations. From thereto explain, theUN Resolution 1325 Implementation, and how it affects the state of Sexual Violence occurrences in the DRC.