SFI External Professor Elisabeth Wood describes the phenomena of rape and murder during wartime.

Hear her interview on the Santa Fe Radio Cafe (September 30, 2013)

In some conflicts, vast abuses of civilians by state militaries takes place. In other conflicts, little civilian abuse occurs.

Wood's research seeks to understand the underlying causes of systematic abuses and what might prevent it in future conflicts.

Wood is a professor of political science at Yale University and an SFI External Professor. She is author of Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003).