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Counting Sexual Violence in Congo

by Tia Palermo and John Torpey | February 14, 2012 | Winter 2012

An interview with Tia Palermo, a professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Palermo used population-based data to better understand the occurrence of sexual violence in Congo. Palermo talks about how the magnitude of sexual violence is higher than previous studies suggest and also offers insight on the geographic spread of such violence.

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Tia Palermo is the co-author of a widely cited study of rape in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, and a professor of Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

John Torpey is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is author of Making Whole What has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics.

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