This Was Not Our War : Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace / Swanee Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Swanee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 307 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

This Was Not Our War

Place of Publication:

Durham, DC : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This Was Not Our War shares first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who founded a veterans' aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived Auschwitz - these women are advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers. They are from all parts of Bosnia and represent its full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages. Their ages spread across sixty years, and their wealth ranges from expensive jewels to a few chickens. For all their differences, they have this much in common: all survived the war with enough emotional strength to work toward rebuilding their country."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introductionpt. 1. MadnessHell breaks looseLove in the crucibleReasons for the warThe lie of intractable hatredspt. 2. To heal historyChallengesWomen transformingThe road to reconciliationEpilogue: The courage to hopeProfilesClosing thoughts.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4780-9096-0

OCLC:

1309021732