Hunt This Was Not Our War

Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8606-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Combines Bosnian women's personal testimony about the recent war and its aftermath with Ambassador Hunt's analysis of the U.S. government's appproach to the conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunt, Swanee

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clinton, William Jefferson

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Foreword / William Jefferson Clinton xi

Preface xv

Context

The Balkans xxviii

Key Players xxxiii

Introduction 1

I. Madness 7

1. Hell Breaks Loose 15

2. Love in the Crucible 59

3. Reasons for the War 73

4. The Lie of Intractable Hatred 95

II. To Heal History 115

5. Challenges 119

6. Women Transforming 137

7. The Road to Reconciliation 169

Epilogue: The Courage to Hope 191

Profiles 197

Closing Thoughts 251

Acknowledgments 259

Notes 263

Bibliography 291

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Swanee Hunt chairs the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security. During her tenure as U.S. ambassador to Austria (1993–97), she hosted negotiations and symposia focused on securing the peace in the neighboring Balkan states. She is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the president of Hunt Alternatives Fund, and the author of Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security and Half-Life of a Zealot, both also published by Duke University Press.