More than three dozen peer-reviewed publications in top political science and economics journals have used the SVAC dataset (as of May 2023):
- Johansson, Karin. 2023. “Talk of Shame: Conflict-related Sexual Violence and Bilateral Critique within the United Nations,” Journal of Peace Research.
- Lee, Sumin and Andrey Tomashevskiy. 2023. “Punish or Tolerate? State Capacity, Military Oversight, and Wartime Sexual Violence,” International Interactions.
- Guarnieri, Eleonora and Ana Tur-Prats. 2023. “Cultural Distance and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjad015.
- Reeder, Bryce Wesley and Rachel Dicke. 2023. “Peacekeeping Deployments, Intragroup Cohesion, and the Use of Sexual Violence by Armed Non-State Groups,” International Peacekeeping.
- Adelaiye, Samaila Oluwatope, Chhandosi Roy, and Mehwish Sarwari, 2023. “Economic Actors as Human Rights Watchers: The Effects of Government Sexual Violence on Foreign Direct Investment,” Foreign Policy Analysis 19: 2, orad001.
- Ju, Changwook. 2023. “Determinants of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Meta-Reanalysis Distinguishing Two Classes of Zero Observations,” International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming).
- Broache, Michael P. and Juhi Kore. 2023. “Can the International Criminal Court Prevent Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict?” Journal of Human Rights 22:1: 78-93.
- Soules, Michael J. 2023. “Recruiting Rebels: Introducing the Rebel Appeals and Incentives Dataset.” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
- Faulker, Christopher and Blair Welsh. 2022. “Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-related Sexual Violence,” International Studies Quarterly 66(4).
- Overton, Kathryn and Sally Sharif. 2022. “Agents with Principles? Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence with Human Rights Laws and Norms,” forthcoming in Human Rights Quarterly.
- Comstock, Audrey. 2022. “The UN voluntary compact and peacekeeping abuse: assessing a soft law solution for sexual exploitation and abuse,” International Journal of Human Rights.
- Wieselgren, Herman. 2022. “Sexual Violence along Ethnic Lines? Revisiting Rebel-Civilian Ethnic Ties and Wartime Sexual Violence,” International Interactions 48(6): 1216-1232.
- Narang, Neil and Yanjun Liu. 2022. “Does Female Ratio Balancing Influence the Efficacy of Peacekeeping Units? Exploring the Impact of Female Peacekeepers on Post-conflict Outcomes and Behavior.” International Interactions 48(2): 173-203.
- Watanabe, Hiroki.”When Does Leftist Ideology Fail to Prevent Rape?
An Analysis of the Leftist Rebel Groups in Colombia in the 2010s.” Tsinghua IR Review, Volume 2, No. 1. - Dumaine, Logan, Ragnhild Nordås, Maria Gargiulo, and Elisabeth Jean Wood. 2022. “Repertoires of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 59(4): 611-621.
- Binningsbø, Helga Malmin and Ragnhild Nordås. 2022. “Conflict-related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(6): 1066-1090.
- Willis, Christopher P. 2021. “Sexual Violence by the State: The Role of Political Institutions in Sexual Violence Perpetration.” International Studies Quarterly 65(3): 768-781.
- Sawyer, Katherine, Kanisha D. Bond, and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. 2021. “Rebel Leader Ascension and Wartime Sexual Violence.” Journal of Politics 83(1): 396–400.
- Sarwari, Mehwish. 2021. “Impact of Rebel Group Ideology on Wartime Sexual Violence.” Journal of Global Security Studies 6(2).
- Duursma, Allard and Feike Fliervoet. 2021. “Fueling Factionalism? The Impact of Peace Processes on Rebel Group Fragmentation in Civil Wars.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(4): 788-812.
- Asal, Victor and Robert Ulrich Nagel. 2021. “Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence” Security Studies 30(1): 136-158.
- Nagel, Robert U. 2021. “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Re-Escalation of Lethal Violence.” International Studies Quarterly 65(1): 56–68.
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- Recipient of the 2019 Cedric Smith Prize of the Conflict Research Society
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- Doctor, Austin C. 2021. “Foreign Fighters and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.” International Studies Quarterly 65(1): 69–81.
- Nagel, Robert U. and Austin C. Doctor. 2020. “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Rebel Group Fragmentation.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(7-8): 1226-1253.
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- Recipient of the 2020 Dina Zinnes Award of the International Studies Association, SSIP section
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- Krüger, Jule and Ragnhild Nordås. 2020. “A Latent Variable Approach to Measuring Wartime Sexual Violence.” Journal of Peace Research 57(6): 728-739.
- Tidblad-Lundholm, Kajsa. 2020. “When are Women Deployed? Operational Uncertainty and Deployment of Female Personnel to UN Peacekeeping.” International Peacekeeping 27(4): 673-702.
- Sarwari, Mehwish. 2020. “Ideology and UN Responsiveness to Sexual Violence” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 14(5): 671-690.
- Agerberg, Mattias and Anne-Kathrin Kreft. 2020. “Gendered Conflict, Gendered Outcomes: The Politicization of Sexual Violence and Quota Adoption.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(2-3): 290-317.
- Benson, Michelle and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis. 2020. “A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(1): 167-198.
- Whitaker, Beth Elise, James Igoe Walsh, and Justin M. Conrad. 2019. “Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups.” Journal of Politics 81(2): 702–706.
- Kirschner, Shanna and Adam Miller. 2019. “Does Peacekeeping Really Bring Peace? Peacekeepers and Combatant-perpetrated Sexual Violence in Civil Wars.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(9): 2043-2070.
- Nagel, Robert Ulrich. 2019. “Talking to the shameless? Sexual violence and mediation in Intrastate Conflicts.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(8): 1832-1859.
- Johansson, Karin and Lisa Hultman. 2019. “UN Peacekeeping and Protection from Sexual Violence.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(7): 1656-1681.
- Johansson, Karin and Mehwish Sarwari. 2019. “Sexual Violence and Biased Military Interventions in Civil Conflict.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 36(5): 469-493.
- Kreft, Anne-Kathrin. 2018. “Responding to Sexual Violence: Women’s Mobilization in War.” Journal of Peace Research 56(2): 220-233.
- Chu, Tiffany and Jessica Maves Braithwaite. 2018. “The Effect of Sexual Violence on Negotiated Outcomes in Civil Conflicts.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 35(3): 233–247.
- Hultman, Lisa and Karin Johansson. 2017. “Responding to Wartime Sexual Violence: UN Peacekeeping and the Protection Agenda.” Global Responsibility to Protect 9(2): 129-46.
- Kreutz, Joakim and Magda Cardenas. 2017. “Women, Peace and Intervention: How the International Community Responds to Sexual Violence in Civil Conflict.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 23(3): 260-276.
- Cohen, Dara Kay and Ragnhild Nordås. 2015. “Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(5): 877-898.
- Cohen, Dara Kay and Ragnhild Nordås. 2014. “Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989–2009.” Journal of Peace Research 51(3): 418-428.