NEWS!
Templates re. research projects, country overviews
are now available on the membership pages - to access, please register.
(07/2010) New article! Ingvill C. Mochmann and Sabine Lee: The Huiman Rights of Children born of War: Case Analyses of Past and Present conflicts, Historical Social Research, Vol. 35, 2010, No. 3. 268-298.
(06/2010) New book! R. Charli Carpenter
"Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human
Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond", Columbia University Press.
(06/2010) Interview with Ingvill C. Mochmann in Deutschlandfunk June 11th 2010.
(06/2010) Researcher searching for Polish children born of war. Further information in German and Polish.
(06/2010) )
New publication: Ingvill C. Mochmann and Dorien Detombe: The COMPRAM Methodology and
Complex Societal Problems – an Analysis of the Case of Children Born of War, Organizacija, Volume 43, Number 3, May-June 2010 , 113-124. DOI: 10.2478/v10051-010-0012-3.
(05/2010) Children born of war searching for roots, a virtuel exhibition of the Belgian Staatsarchiv with information on how to search for family background (in French, German, and Dutch).
(05/2010) Karmen
Erjavec and Zala Volcic: Living With the Sins of Their Fathers: An Analysis
of Self-Representation of Adolescents
Born of War Rape, Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, 359-386
(2010) DOI: 10.1177/0743558410361373
(05/2010) A
Report by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative with Support from Oxfam America: “NOW, THE WORLD IS WITHOUT ME”: AN INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, April
2010 http://hhi.harvard.edu/images/resources/reports/hhi-oxfam%20drc%20gbv%20report.pdf
(includes information on children born of rape in Congo). (04/2010) INIRC Newsletter No. 1 2010 now available.
(04/2010) Session on "Children born of war" has been accpeted at the conference "Children and War, past and present", Salzburg, Austria, 2010.
(04/2010) Research project on children born of war in Finland. For further information click here.
(04/2010) Research project on children born of war in Poland. For further information see section on research projects on mmbership pages.
(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. Article on the topic here.
(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.
(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 I and II. 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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