Villages, Violence and Atonement in Fiji
Over the last 10 years or so, Violence Against Women (VAW) and gender violence more generally have been conceptualised as major obstacles to development insofar as they increase healthcare costs and reduce productivity.1 The types of violence these terms most commonly refer to are domestic violence between spouses and other intimate partners, rape, sexual assault and child sexual abuse in which men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators and women and girls are overwhelmingly the victims and/or survivors.