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

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Avrasya Uluslararası Araştırmalar Dergisi
Volume:11 Issue:35
Gender-Based Violence in Bosnia From Conflict to The Post-Conflict Setting

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

Pages : 1064-1077

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Publication Date : 2023-06-20

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :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.
Keywords : Bosnia, gender, violence, social psychology, political economy

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