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Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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This article presents a narrative analysis of interviews with five women who were victims of war rape during the Bosnian war. It is commonly believed that, when utilized in ethnic conflicts, as in the Bosnian case, sexual violence is employed as a weapon of demoralization against entire societies. The demoralization is characterized by a violent invasion of the interior of the victim?s body, which thereby constitutes an attack upon the intimate self and dignity of the individual human being. By giving a voice to women who have experienced such an ordeal and letting them describe how they regard and analyze what they went through, we gain insight into the diverse impacts that war rapes have on different victims, their families and relationships. The narrative analysis makes it possible to analyze the war-rape experiences as unique and different from other war-trauma experiences, while simultaneously recognizing the totality in which the war-rapes occurred.

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Skjelsbaek, Inger. "Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99650_index.html>

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Skjelsbaek, I. , 2006-03-22 "Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99650_index.html

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Abstract: This article presents a narrative analysis of interviews with five women who were victims of war rape during the Bosnian war. It is commonly believed that, when utilized in ethnic conflicts, as in the Bosnian case, sexual violence is employed as a weapon of demoralization against entire societies. The demoralization is characterized by a violent invasion of the interior of the victim?s body, which thereby constitutes an attack upon the intimate self and dignity of the individual human being. By giving a voice to women who have experienced such an ordeal and letting them describe how they regard and analyze what they went through, we gain insight into the diverse impacts that war rapes have on different victims, their families and relationships. The narrative analysis makes it possible to analyze the war-rape experiences as unique and different from other war-trauma experiences, while simultaneously recognizing the totality in which the war-rapes occurred.

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Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina Draft paper – please do not quote without contacting author! Inger Skjelsbæk International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Institute for East European and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at the University of California Berkeley1 Abstract This article presents a narrative analysis of interviews with five women who were victims of war rape during the Bosnian war. It is commonly believed that when utilized in ethnic
at University of California Berkeley (2002–03). ISEEES director Barbara Voytek deserves special thanks for having facilitated my research stay at UC Berkeley. The article is part of a larger doctorate project funded by the Norwegian Research Council under the supervision by professor Hjørdis Kaul at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim Norway. I wish to thank Hjørdis Kaul Berit Schei John Erik Riley and John Carville for helpful comments on


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