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Skeletal prisoners caged behind barbed-wire fences, women and girls raped as a tool of war, defenseless men and boys shot down into mass graves, evoking visions of World War II concentration camps and endless lines of refugees marching toward a future of despair. Bosnia was a small spot on the map of the... xml. Preface.
This Was Not Our War shares amazing 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 ...
Ag-gressive and bellicose women may force their way to the policy table; for the moderate majority, there is no easy entry. So it was in Bosnia. Although women comprised well over half the adult population after the war, their opinions were not sought, nor were their ideas welcome.
Nov 29, 2004 · This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student...
Jan 1, 2004 · The book is comprised of first account interviews from twenty six Bosnian women about their experiences before, during, and after Serbian forces began attacking ethnic Bosnians and Croatians in their own country of Yugoslavia under the command of Slobodan Milosevic.
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Introduction -- Madness -- Hell breaks loose -- Love in the crucible -- Reasons for the war -- The lie of intractable hatreds -- Heal history -- Challenges -- Women transforming -- The road to reconciliation -- Epilogue: The courage to hope
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