Category: News

The Children Born of War Project on November 1st 2022 endorsed the Call to Action and committed to all priorities in the Platform for Action which are: Priority One: Building Evidence and Understanding on Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence  Priority Two: Promoting Effective Laws, Policies & Practices Priority Three: Empowering Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Advocating With/on …

November 28 to 29 2022, the UK government hosted the International Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Conference in central London. In this context Lord Ahmad, Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Preventing Sexual Violence in …

International Workshop at Lund University, May 10th-12th, 2023. The study of Children Born of War (CBOW) has made significant advances in recent years within a wide range of national contexts and disciplines. Building on these foundations, this workshop seeks to strengthen the comparative scholarship in the field. CBOW may face multiple forms of legal, social, gendered, or ethno-national discrimination. Comparative …

The CBOW Project is happy to share the news of the selected winners from the first grant call published in April, 2022. The foundation received an overwhelming amount of applications demonstrating the importance and work being done with children born of war globally. After an extensive evaluation process (details outlined below), the foundation will support 6 projects for one year …

The board members Norman Mukasa and Ingvill C. Mochmann published an article on ‘Ethical issues in researching Children Born of War’. See here.

CBOW project managing director Ingvill Constanze Mochmann in conversation with Children Born of War at the launch of the ERC funded “EuroWARCHILD” project. See here.

What do we know about “Children born of war” and what is needed to secure their basic human rights? Our chair of the board and managing director Ingvill C. Mochmann answered these and other questions in an interview (in Norwegian) with the Norwegian news NRK #Nyhetsmorgen For the full interview, see here (from Minute 18:30 onwards).

This week the Norwegian newsmagazine A-magasinet published an extensive article from the Children Born of War (CBOW) project event which took place at Hotel Bristol March 7th 2022. In addition to the strong and emotional stories shared by three Norwegian children born of war (krigsbarn), the story behind the mobile game My Child Lebensborn and the establishment of the foundation Children Born of …

The Norwegian Children Born of War (CBOW) from World War II – the so-called “krigsbarn” – were the first group of children to fight for their rights. It was a great joy to present the newly established foundation during a gathering with the Norwegian CBOW, assuring them that the Children Born of War Project will continue the work they started. It …

The Norway-based foundation, Children Born of War Project is now officially launched! Children born of war (CBOW) are children born by local women and fathered by a foreign/enemy soldier during and after conflict. The Children Born of War Project works at the academic, policy, and community level to increase awareness, justice and evidence on CBOW. The foundation will bring together individuals and …