NEWS!
Templates re. research projects, country overviews
are now available on the membership pages - to access, please register.
(03/2010) Call for papers
two special issues on "War and Trauma" (in German). For further information click here.
(01/2010) Lesung und Podiumsdiskussion betreffend das Buch "Wir waren doch nur Kinder..." des Autors Jenö Alpár Molnár. Seine autobiografische Geschichte handelt von seinem Leben in Österreich.Freitag, 05.03.2010 Einlass 15.00 Uhr, Beginn 16.00 UhrParlament: Budgetsaal (Saal VI), Wien. Zwischenbericht hier.sowie Diskussion mit Betroffenen.Two network members participate in the discussion.
(12/2009)
INIRC Newsletter No. 3/2009 now available (12/2009) "Individual versus collective responsibility - who is responsible for the
children born of war?" has been accepted for presentation , in the Session
“War and Violence” at the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July
2010.
(12/2009) "Das
Meisje und der deutsche Soldat". In der Reihe "Liebe
unerwünscht". A movie by Erika Fehse.
(12/2009) Gelöschte Namen: Warum
eine 67-jährige Belgierin jahrzehntelang nach ihrem Vater suchte, Der
Spiegel 52/2009, p.123.
(03.09. 2009)
New publication: Historical Social Research,
HSR Vol. 34 (2009) 3, Focus:
Ingvill C. Mochmann, Sabine Lee & Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Eds.):
«Children Born of War: Second World War and Beyond»
more news here
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Keywords: children born of war, war children, Kinder des Krieges, Kriegskinder, Besatzungskinder, Wehrmachtskinder
Throughout history
there have probably always been children born during and after conflicts and
wars where the father has been a member of an enemy, allied or peacekeeping
force and the mother a local citizen.
Although, information exists from research teams, organisations, individuals etc. who have been concerned with this topic there is still a big gap in information and knowledge.
The aim of this interdisciplinary and international research network on children born of war thus aims at bridging this gap by:
• Collecting data and information on children born of war across time and nations and thereby expanding the evidence base.
• Gathering research results, literature and on-going research on children born of war and promote collaborative research projects on the topic.
• Developing recommendations of best practices to secure the rights of children born of war in co-operation with NGO‘s and governmental organisations.
• Developing medical therapies focusing on the special needs of children born of war.
It is our hope that by addressing this issue at all societal and political levels and advice national and international organisations we can promote the needs and rights of children born of war.
ESRA, Warsaw June 30th 2009: Analysing children born of war across time, nations and disciplines. Here you find abstracts of the presentations (Photo from the left: Ingvill C. Mochmann, Monika Diederichs, Barbara Stelz-Marx, Sabine Lee, Eunice Apio, Arne Öland. Kai Grieg was connected via video conference).
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Photo of a returned child solder (with the Lord's Resistance Army)
and
her child fathered by an LRA father (she
returned in 2008). With courtesy of CPA's photo galery.
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