{"id":1704,"date":"2016-02-04T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:13:34","slug":"faculty-works-in-progress-series-doris-buss-sexual-violence-and-conflict-minerals-disordering-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/2016\/faculty-works-in-progress-series-doris-buss-sexual-violence-and-conflict-minerals-disordering-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Works-in-Progress Series, Doris Buss &#8220;Sexual Violence and \u2018Conflict\u2019 Minerals: Dis\/ordering Insecurity'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Buss-Doris.jpg\" alt=\"Buss-Doris\" class=\"wp-image-1703\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Global and International Studies Program would like to announce our seventh Works-in-Progress speaker, Dr. Doris Buss, whose paper &#8220;Sexual Violence and \u2018Conflict\u2019 Minerals: Dis\/ordering Insecurity'&#8221;&nbsp;will be presented on&nbsp;<strong>Friday, February 26th at 12pm in D199 Loeb Building<\/strong>. &nbsp;The discussant for this paper will be&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Ummni Khan<\/strong>&nbsp;(Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All papers will be pre-circulated two weeks in advance of each paper presentation. Please register in advance using the form below in order to receive copies of discussion papers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, the United States Congress passed an extraordinary provision seeking to regulate the trade in \u2018conflict minerals\u2019 from Africa\u2019s great lakes region, in order to address human rights abuses, including sexual and gender-based violence. This paper takes a close look at this innovative development to consider what, if any, new spaces and tools are provided with which to offer a more complex account of sexual violence, mining and conflict in central Africa. It concludes that sexual violence becomes in\/visible as epiphenomenal in the context of this new provision and the ensuring debate about \u2018conflict minerals\u2019. The terms by which this happens are important to understand in the context of new regimes of governance predicated on (self) reporting and knowledge production. The analysis here considers how the \u2018problem\u2019 of mining and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is framed and contested in the context of this new legislative enactment, and the constrained production of knowledge about sexual violence and its relationship to the political economy of conflict that results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global and International Studies Program would like to announce our seventh Works-in-Progress speaker, Dr. Doris Buss, whose paper &#8220;Sexual Violence and \u2018Conflict\u2019 Minerals: Dis\/ordering Insecurity&#8217;&#8221;&nbsp;will be presented on&nbsp;Friday, February 26th at 12pm in D199 Loeb Building. &nbsp;The discussant for this paper will be&nbsp;Dr. Ummni Khan&nbsp;(Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University). 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