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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.
*ccs 20050505 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index former call number: 2004 Hunt 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
I offered to help and was pulled even deeper into the work of Bosnian women to rebuild theircountryand secure the peace. Postconflict Bosnia brought tremendous challenges. Bitterness, anger, and anguish lay under every pile of political rubble. As the international commu-nity moved into positions of authority, I received encouragement from ...
With This Was Not Our War she shows she is also a gifted listener and writer. In these pages, Hunt captures the rationales and rationalizations for war as well as the despair and stirring dignity of twenty-six women who lived through the Bosnian horrors. Hunt lets the women speak for themselves, telling the story of Bosnia’s descent and ...
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 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 ...
Hunt, Swanee -- Travel -- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Women, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Protest movements, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Politics and government -- 1992-Publisher Durham : Duke University Press Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Jan 1, 2005 · In Sarajevo, dark humor, art, and satire served as civilians' own way of rejecting ethnic politics and shouted loudly, "This was not our war" (see Hunt 2004). Finally, the case of Prijedor reveals ...
