We Need to Talk About Children Born of War

Every day, children are born in war and armed conflict, in Ukraine, on the Gaza Strip, in South Sudan, in Myanmar and elsewhere. Some of these children might have parents who are enemies, that is, parents who are on opposite sides of the conflict.

Some of these children might have been conceived through conflict related sexual violence. After the Bosnian war, and the genocide in Rwanda, in the 1990s we started talking about rape as a weapon of war and unprecedented political attention followed. But the children conceived through these acts have remained silenced and often hidden. In a new PRIO blog post, Inger Skjelsbæk revisits lessons learned and highlights promising stories and empowered interventions by children born of war themselves.

Read the PRIO blog post here: https://www.prio.org/comments/1162