Boko Haram y el terror a través de la violencia sexual

Resum

Since 2009, the region in northwest Nigeria suffers the terrorist threat of Boko Haram. In particular, the development of the conflict and the process of radicalization that the Abubakar Shekau faction has experienced during these past years has resulted in the use of violence against women due to reasons of gender. More specifically, the sexual objectification of women has proved to be a particularly effective tactic for achieving jihadist objectives. This document analyzes the social, ideological and strategic factors which have increased the practice of sexual violence as a weapon of terror by Boko Haram and which have greatly triggered the feeling of grievance and insecurity in the population. In short, all of this is affecting the very stability of the Lake Chad region. In this context, it is important to observe the causes, characteristics and consequences of this matter in order to measure the magnitude of the problem, as well as the extent of the effects that sexual violence causes on the victim, on her family nucleus and on the entire community. To sum up, all this will allow us to propose a series of recommendations in order to abolish the use of this terror tactic that, in the interest of an alleged jihad, threatens to blow up the communal living in northern Nigeria.