1st Edition

Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Post Conflict Settings

By Nena Močnik Copyright 2021
192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book grapples with the potential impacts of collective trauma in war-rape survivors’ families. Drawing on inter-ethnic and inter-generational participatory action research on reconciliation processes in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author examines the risk that female survivors of war-related sexual crimes, now-mothers, will breed hatred and further division in the post-conflict... Read more

1. I will not Raise my Child to Kill your Child 

2. Edifiying Ethnography and a Voice-In-Between: A Methodological Remark 

3. Social (Ab)Uses of War-Related Sexual Trauma 

4. Mothering with the Trauma of War Rape 

5. Intergenerational Effects of Trauma Transmission and Continuation of Violent Sexual Culture 

6. War Rape Legacies: Transmission, Agency, Transformation 

7. Survivors and Post-War Youth in Intergenerational Dialogue to Prevent the Transmission of Sexual

Biography

Nena Močnik is a researcher at CY Cergy-Paris University, France, and the author of Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research.