Biography
Chianaraekpere Ike is a Doctoral Candidate at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and is a Graduate Fellow, Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center, University of Washington. She is a Law and Society, and a Gender, Women and Sexuality Scholar; an International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human rights Law expert; and a Critical Theorist.
She was the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission (MJC)'s 2023 Justice Charles Z. Smith Award recipient from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ; the University of Washington Graduate School's 2020–2021 Dissertation Fellowship Award recipient of the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (formerly GO-MAP, now GSEE); and the 2017 Alfredo Arreguin Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) Scholarship from the University of Washington Alumni Association.
She is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Nigerian Supreme Court and a former law clerk in the Pre-Trial Unit of the International Criminal Court. She also practiced law in Nigeria for several years as a State Counsel, Defense Attorney and a Human Rights Advocate.
Dissertation
Hidden in Plain Sight, An Empirical Study of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict from a Boko Haram Perspective.
Research
Chianaraekpere uses mixed methods in her research to empirically study conflict related sexual violence. Her Dissertation research investigates the factors responsible for sexual violence in the Boko Haram armed conflict, spotlighting the perspectives of ex-combatants of the Boko Haram armed group. She developed her original data set of audio recordings and transcripts of more than 150 interviews, focus groups, and other secondary data for her qualitative analysis, to explain the implications of the inefficacy of International Humanitarian Law to curb Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict.
Selected Publications
- Chianaraekpere Ike & David Nnanna Ikpo, , 5(2) JCLA 1 (2019).
- Azubuike Onuora-Oguno, Chianaraekpere Ike, Christiana Barau, , 5(1) JLSD: Law and society in an era of fragility in Africa (2018).
- Ike, C., Onuora-Oguno, A. (2023). Charting a New Course in Sexual Violence Prohibition and Protection in Nigeria: A Need to Reappraise Public Law Jurisprudence in Nigeria?. In: Onuora-Oguno, A. (eds) . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.