New book by Inger Skjelsbæk on researching women’s wartime experiences in Bosnian

The Balkan wars of the 1990s profoundly influenced modern European history. The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia inflicted enormous suffering and resonated worldwide. Inger Skjelsbæk, PI of the EuroWARCHILD project, reflected on this time and her research in Bosnia after the war in a new book.

Inger Skjelsbæk first went to Bosnia in 1997 as an international election observer and has since tracked the country’s progress, focusing especially on women’s wartime experiences. Her new book Sarajevos Roser (published in Norwegian) examines life after a conflict characterized by extreme war crimes and genocide, including sexual violence. It presents her research on conflict-related sexual violence through the people she met, the texts she studied, and the encounters she had in Bosnia since 1995, the year the Bosnian war ended with the Dayton Peace Agreement.

Published with Forlaget Press: https://forlagetpress.no/produkt/sarajevos-roser-2/