Surviving peace : a political memoir / Simić, Olivera ; cover design, Deb Snibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simić, Olivera, author.

Contributor:

Snibson, Deb, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Biography.

Refugees.

Peacekeeping forces--Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Peacekeeping forces.

Simić, Olivera.

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)--History--Siege, 1992-1996--Personal narratives.

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Australia : Spinifex, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is no longer spoken and your family is divided, not just by distance but by politics too? What happens when your old identity is taken from you and a new one imposed, one that you never asked for? When Olivera Simic was seven years old, President Tito died. Old divisions re-emerged as bitter ethnic conflicts unfolded. War arrived in 1992. People were no longer Yugoslavs but Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians. Old friends became enemies overnight. In this

Contents:

Front Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright; Epigraph ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map A Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY); Map B Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH); Preface The Past Lives On; Chapter One Journeying Through War and Peace; Chapter Two Traitor or Truth Seeker?; Moral Responsibility; The Masculinity of War; Truth Seekers; Paying a High Price; How to Face the Past?; Chapter Three Moving From War to Peace; The NATO Bombings; Life as a Refugee; Building Peace; Where Are You From?; Chapter Four The Past is the Present; Chapter Five Victims and Survivors

From One Disaster to AnotherFacing the Past Begins; Chapter Six Between Remembering and Forgetting; Minefields; Conflicting War Memories; Epilogue Troubled Homeland; Appendix Timeline of Yugoslavia's Disintegration; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Other Books from Spinifex Press ; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 13, 2014).

ISBN:

9781742198910

1742198910

9781742198897

1742198899

OCLC:

869729072