Upcoming Article in the Spring Issue: Liberia’s “New War”: Post-Conflict Strategies for Confronting Rape and Sexual Violence
Arizona State Law Journal is previewing its upcoming articles in the spring publication. This article is written by third-year student, Sara Cummings. In the summer of 2009, a crime of sexual violence took place in Phoenix that sent shock waves into the local community. Tragically enough, the victim was an eight year old girl, but the assailants who raped her were also alarmingly young: four boys ranging in age from nine to fourteen. The crime raised implications far beyond Phoenix. Both the victim and her attackers were refugees from Liberia, a country with a troubled history marked by violent atrocities, including fourteen years of recent civil war in which rape and sexual violence were used by factions on all sides as tools for terror and control. Whatever may have motivated the…