1st Edition

The Political Psychology of War Rape Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Inger Skjelsbæk Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a methodological outline of how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Designing a Study of the Aftermath of the War Rapes in Bosnia  3. Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women who Experienced Rape during the War  4. What Do We Know about War Rapes before the 1990s?  5. The Turning Points in the 1990s which Created a New Understanding of War Rape  6. The First Generation of Systematic Documentation of Sexual Violence in War 1990–1998: Naming the Unnamable and Understanding the Incomprehensible  7. Therapeutic Work with Victims of Sexual Violence War and Post-War  8. Traditions and Transitions: Perceptions of ‘Good Womanhood’ among Twenty Bosnian Focus Group Participants  9. Beyond Bosnia: International Efforts to Move from Accounting to Accountability  10. The Political Psychology of War Rape

Biography

Inger Skjelsbæk is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.  She is the co-editor of Gender, Peace and Conflict.