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The focus in this project was to study the male perpetration of sexual violence in war. The focus was on the male perpetrators themselves and how they view their actions in hindsight and in light of their punishment. In addition, the project focused on the ways in which male perpetrators of sexual violence were situated and perceived within a supranational legal context and the perpetrators' reasoning for committing acts of sexual violence in the war setting. The empirical focus was on male perpetrators of sexual violence during the Bosnian war from 1992-1995. The overarching aim was to classify a body of empirical data - primarily court records and interviews in light of current social psychological theories. In order to study this theme, it was imperative to consider how social narratives and individual identity construction interact with the discourses of gender and memories of the Bosnian war. The primary research methods were literature studies and interviews. The project investigated: - The ways in which crimes of sexual violence are narrated within the ICTY documentations on sexual violence crimes and its offenders; - The ways in which legal experts, and others working at the ICTY, have experienced working with sexual violence male offenders within a supranational criminal context; - How a group of men sentenced for sexual violence within the ICTY regard their actionsand punishment after having received their sentences.