Gender-Based Violence in Bosnia From Conflict to The Post-Conflict Setting

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ID21998799
AutoresIbrahim Kuran (0000-0002-4739-2828, Istanbul Medeniyet University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume11
Fascículo35
Páginas1064-1077
Data de publicação2023-06-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAvrasya Uluslararası Araştırmalar Dergisi (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2147-2610 • E-ISSN: 2147-2610
EditoraAvrasya Uluslararas脹 Arast脹rmalar Dergisi (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33692/avrasyad.1232961
OpenAlexW4379518585
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

This review article aims to investigate gender-based violence in wartime and post-war Bosnia. While the existing literature exclusively focuses on the relationship between gender and nationalism, this article rather addresses the psychological and economic violence against women in Bosnia. By adopting a continuum approach, this study uncovers how different forms of violence against women interact with each other from the conflict to the post-conflict contexts. Through a literature survey, this study depicts how gender-based violence has been reproduced from past to present in the case of Bosnia. In discussing gender-based violence, it dwells upon the intersections between mass rapes, forced pregnancy and traumatization. As the main argument, this article contends that sexual violence during the war triggered the spiral of violence and further led to stigmatization and marginalization of these women in the post-war context. It is especially argued that the persistent public stigma is the most blatant manifestation of psychological violence against female rape victims. In addition, it is shown that the overlapping processes of conflict, patriarchy and neoliberalization have led to a series of economic injustices, such as, in the form of the dispossession, poverty and exclusion of women in Bosnia. This article overall suggests establishing linkages between sexual, psychological and economic violence against women during the conflict and post-conflict processes

Criminology · Domestic violence · Ethnic conflict · Geography · Patriarchy · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sexual violence · Sociology · Structural violence · Suicide prevention · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology