We are currently very busy with new project and initiatives. Here some of the main news and developments:
CBOW at “UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy for Times of Crisis Facilitated by Open Science”
July 4 & 5 2024 – CBOW Project chairwoman, Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard was invited to participate in the working group and consultative meeting of the “UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy for Times of Crisis Facilitated by Open Science (DPTC)” to share experiences regarding data collection and sharing of CBOW data. For more information see here
Online Training: What are the consequences of CRSV and how to provide the support for CRSV survivors & Children Born of War (CBOW)?
These and other questions were addressed at the online training on CRSV & CBOW on May 22-23, 2024 with 25 representatives of the Zaporizhzhia region. For further information see here
New research Projects
CBOW Project affiliated expert, Jakub Gałęziowski has received a research grant from the Polish research foundations to work on the topic “Overlooked, assimilated, forgotten. Fate and experience of children born to Polish female forced laborers and displaced persons, fathered by foreigners.” Congratulations Jakub! For further information see here
Publications & Media
Born of War in Colombia: Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence (Rutgers University Press, 2024), by Tatiana Sánchez Parra (University of Edinburgh).
‘Born of War in Colombia’ addresses why children born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within human rights and transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence. Whispers of their presence have travelled outside their communities in the form of naming practices that associated them with their biological fathers, perpetrators of all forms of violence. They also exist in their mothers’ testimonies of sexual violence and within the country’s domestic reparations program, which was the first in the world to include them as victims entitle to reparations. These forms of visibility, however, have yet to translate into concrete strategies for working with them and their mothers, understanding their situations, and guaranteeing their well-being. The book draws on feminist ethnography with an Afro-Colombian community that endured a four-year paramilitary confinement and of the country’s domestic reparation programme. It reveals how a harm-centred model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies of children born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to policymakers and scholars seeking to address the consequences of war in Colombia. The book also engages with the reproductive justice framework and directly addresses issues of reproductive violence. In that way, it also contributes to broadening notions of gendered victimhood and reproductive freedom. In case you are considering purchasing the book, please feel free to contact the author (tsanchez@ed.ac.uk) for a discount code.
The Best Interests of the Child in National Terms: Policies Concerning Children of Polish Female Forced Laborers and Displaced Persons in the Early Cold War Era, by Jakub Gałęziowski in: Childhood during War and Genocide: Agency, Survival, and Representation, ed. by J. Michlic, A. Ullrich, Y. von Saal, Göttingen 2024, pp. 151-175. www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835355996-007.html
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