Tuba Inal, PhD, is senior lecturer of politics at University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. She is author of Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations.

Merril D. Smith, PhD, is an independent scholar who has authored or edited several books including Encyclopedia of Rape, Encyclopedia of Rape and Sexual Violence, and Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America.