Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence

Drawing on research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this book examines the risk that female survivors of war-related sexual crimes will breed hatred and division in the post-conflict context, and offers proposals for a curriculum of peacebuilding that takes account of the legacy of war rape and trauma transmission in survivors' families.

Nena Mönik is a researcher at CY Cergy-Paris University, France, and the author of Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research.

1. I will not Raise my Child to Kill your Child 2. Edifiying Ethnography and a Voice-In-Between: A Methodological Remark 3. Social (Ab)Uses of War-Related Sexual Trauma 4. Mothering with the Trauma of War Rape 5. Intergenerational Effects of Trauma Transmission and Continuation of Violent Sexual Culture 6. War Rape Legacies: Transmission, Agency, Transformation 7. Survivors and Post-War Youth in Intergenerational Dialogue to Prevent the Transmission of Sexual