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(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.

(06/2010) New publication: R. Charli Carpenter: Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond, Columbia University Press.

(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»

(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.

(28.09.2009) Gerlinda Swillen:KoekoekskindDoor de vijand verwekt (1940-1945)

(24.09.2009) New Book! Helle Aarnes: Tyskerjentene - Historiene vi aldri ble fortalt nominated for Brageprisen 2009

(06.07.2009) ESRA, Warsaw June 30th 2009: Analysing children born of war across time, nations and disciplines. Here you find abstracts of the presentations

(20.08.2009)
INIRC Newsletter No. 2 now available!

Deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft für einen "Bastard, Welt Online, 06.08. 2009.

(26.07.2009) New Book:
Ebba D. Drolshagen: Der freundliche Feind Wehrmachtssoldaten im besetzten Europa.

(09.07.2009)
Tracing Roots Fostered by War, Severed by Shame, New York Times.

(26.06.2009) Presentation:
"Children born of war and the Compram methodology" at the 23rd European conference on operational research, Bonn, July 5-8, 2009.

(22.05.2009) Interview with Ingvill C. Mochmann in conjunction with the network presentation a the World Social Science Forum, Bergen, May 10-12 2009

(16.04. 2009) NEW BOOK! Erik Oluf Otto Galvit Inger min mor, tyskertøs eller forbudt kærlighed

(28.04.2009) Panel discussion: Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 pmIntented Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape and exhibition (by Jonathan Torgovnik)

(01.04.2009) TV Report: ARTE, Saturday April 4th 7pm: RUANDA: Die Kinder des Genozids / RWANDA: les enfants du génocide von/de Ivo Brandau und/et Markus CM Schmidt

(25.03.2009) NEW BOOK: Fabrice Virgili Naître ennemi : Les enfants de couples franco-allemands nés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

(25.03.2009) Les viols en temps de guerre: une histoire à écrire. Rape in Wartime : A History to be Written. Colloque international 11-13 mai 2009, Paris.

(12.03.2009) The network will be presented at the Symposium: Traumatisierungen des II. Weltkrieges: epidemiologische, soziologische und psychotherapeutische Aspekte bei der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie, Bielefeld, Germany May 7 until 10 2009. Title of presentation is: Kinder des Krieges – Zwischen Anpassung, Ausgrenzung und Traumatisierung.

(12.03.2009) The network will be presented at the World Social Science Forum in Bergen, May 10-12 2009 with a poster presentation: How to give a voice to children born of war? Experiences from an interdisciplinary research network.

(27.02.2009) ESRA, Warsaw June 30th 2009: Analysing children born of war across time, nations and disciplines. Here you find abstracts of the presentations.

(20.02.2009) German passports for war children

(11/ 2008) Kjersti Ericsson: The German Norwegian war children of World War II
and Ingvill C. Mochmann: Truth and post war reconciliation – what lessons could Norway draw from its own past, especially the treatment of the Jewish population and “tyskerjentene” during and after WWII? Both are contribution to the series“Globale Norge – hva nå“ on invitation from the Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre on occasion of the 60-anniversary of the Declaration on Human rights, November 11, 2008.

(10/2008) Anonyma

(10/2008) Remmers, Wolfgang and Norz, Ludwig: Né maudit - verwünscht geboren - Kriegskinder, EXPERIENZAWASt, Band 2, Verlag Adrian Chirita C & N, Berlin, 2008.

(10/2008) Kerstin Muth: Die Wehrmacht in Griechenland - und ihre Kinder, Eudora-Verlag, 2008.

(10/2008) Ingvill C. Mochmann and Steffen Prauser presented the research project on children born of war during and after WWII at 13. Historikertreffen, 28.10. 2008 in Berlin.

(09/2008) Ingvill C. Mochmann: The complexity of securing the interests of children born of war during and after post-conflict situations. Session: Methodology for societal complexity, RC 33, Naples, September 4th, 2008.

Publication: Kjersti Ericsson/Eva Simonsen "On the border. The contested children of Second World War in: Childhood, Vol. 15, No.3, 397-414 (2008).

(06/2008) Workshop: Children born of war during and after World War II, Center for Second World War Studies, University of Birmingham, June 20, 2008
At this occassion a research network aiming at closing the data gap on children born during and after WWII was established. Members are from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and UK.

(01/2008) Publication: Mochmann, Ingvill C and Stein Ugelvik Larsen: "The forgotten consequences of war: The life course of children fathered by German soldiers in Norway and Denmark during WWII – some empirical results." In: Historical Social Research, Vol. 33, 2008, No.1, p. 347-363.