Amelia Hoover Green
Bio:
Amelia Hoover Green is an assistant professor at Drexel University's department of history and politics. Her general research interests include the dynamics of violence during armed conflict, the diffusion of ideas through organizations, the political psychology of violence, and the measurement of political violence. She received the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar award and a MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant for her dissertation work at Yale University. While completing her Ph.D., Hoover Green also served as consultant with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, as knowledge management expert for UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, and as a consultant to a number of war crimes trials.
If you follow debates about sexualized violence in the United States or elsewhere, in war or in peace, then you’ve probably heard at least some of the following statistical (or quasi-statistical) claims about patterns of rape: One in three U.S. women has been sexually assaulted. Seventy-five per cent of Liberian women were raped during the civil war there. Sexualized violence is declining (or increasing). Intra-military rape in the U.S. is down.
