Scientific and evidence-based policy implementation is at the heart of the CBOW project. This is why we engage in national, international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research project on the topic. Please see below a list of past and present projects CBOW Project team members are and/or have been involved in:
Ongoing projects
EuroWARCHILD project
ERC Consolidator Grant ‘EuroWARCHILD’ project, 2021-2026 (Project Leader: Inger Skjelsbæk, University of Oslo; Partners: Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; Torunn L. Tryggestad, Peace Research Institute, Oslo).
EuroWARCHILD aims to study explore the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war in Europe: children fathered by enemy soldiers during World War II, children conceived through conflict-related sexual violence during the Bosnian war, and children born of European foreign fighters to ISIS/Daesh.
For more information about the EuroWARCHILD Project , please see here.
Finished projects
- 2014 – 2015: ‘Norwegische Wehrmachtskinder – Psychosoziale Konsequenzen, Identitätsentwicklung und Erfahrung mit Vorurteilen’ Research Grant
For further information see here. - 2015: ‘Children of Occupation: Experiences in Education and Experiences of Difference in Familial Dialogue’ DFG Grant
For further information see here. - 2015 – 2018: ‘Children Born of War – Past, Present and Future’ EU-funded Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks.
For further information see here. - 2017 – 2018: ‘Entangled Biographies of Children Born of War in Poland after 1945‘. Part of the project ‘Children Born of War – Past, Present and Future’ funded by European Commission (Horizon 2020, MCSA-ITN).
For further information see here. - 2011: ‘The legacy of war time rape’ ConferencePeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the International Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Children Born of War (INIRC) in co-operation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. See also conference report here.
- 2011 – 2013: ‘Their Crime is Being Born: Children born of war in the 20th century’ Research Grant
For further information see here. - 2012 – 2016: ‘Psychosoziale Befinden, Erfahrungen mit Vorurteilen und der Identitätsentwicklung von ›Besatzungskindern‹ in Deutschland’. For further information see here.
- 2015: ‘Besatzungskinder und Wehrmachtskinder – Auf der Suche nach Identität und Resilienz’ Conference, Gesis, Cologne.
See also conference report here. - 2015: ‘”Kinder des Feindes” und die Folgen ihrer Stigmatisierung’ Symposium, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover. Volkswagen Stiftung.
For further information see here. - 2016: ‘Children born of war in a comparative perspective – state of the art and recommendations for future research and policy implementations’ Conference, Kompetenzfeld V „Soziale Ungleichheiten und Interkulturelle Bildung“ (SINTER), University of Cologne, March 3 – 4, 2016.
For further information see here and for a summary in German language, see here. Also for key outcomes of the meeting, see here. - 2016: ‘Vom Zweiten Weltkrieg gezeugt. Kriegskinder auf der Achse Brüssel-Berlin. Vorspiel – Geburt – Aufnahme’
For further information in German see here, for information in French see here.