Challenging Conceptions

Kimberly Theidon, PhD, Henry J. Leir Professor in International Humanitarian Studies, Co-Director, Gender and Intersectional Analysis and Women's/Femmes' Leadership Program, the Fletcher School of Global Affairs, Tufts University Dyan Mazurana, PhD, Research Professor, Co-Director of Gender and Intersectional Analysis and Women's/Femmes' Leadership Program, Fletcher School of Global Affairs; Research Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; Research Fellow, World Peace Foundation; Research Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Dipali Anumol is a doctoral candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she earned her Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy in 2019.

Ch.1 Challenging Conceptions

Part One - Life Cycles: Children Born of Wartime Rape Across Time and Space

Ch. 2 "They're Called Bui Doi": (Re)framing the politics of Amerasians and Children Born of War

Ch. 3 Reconstructing the "Small Family" after Democratic Kampuchea: Forced Marriage, Ritual Renewal and Parent-Child Entanglement in Cambodia

Ch. 4 Unintended Consequences or Desired Outcome? Children Born of War and their Role in National Rebirth

Part Two - Beyond Stigma: Gender, Kinship and Belonging in Northern Uganda

Ch. 5 Gender, Kinship and Children Born of Rape in Patriarchal Northern Uganda

Ch. 6 Kinship and belonging among Children Born of War in northern Uganda: "I am a child who is not from here"

Ch. 7 Missing Fathers: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Their Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood in Northern Uganda

Part Three - (In)visibility: Concealment, Disclosure, and the Question of Categories

Ch. 8 Triptych: Seeing Children Born of Wartime Rape

Ch. 9 The Unknown Youth of Al-Shabaab: Children Born from Al-Shabaab Sexual Violence

Ch. 10 Contested Identities: Gender, Reproduction and War in Colombia

Ch. 11 The Complexity of Sexual Violence, Birthing and Status after the Fall of the Caliphate

Part Four - Transformations: Intergenerational Reconciliation and Justice

Ch. 12 "Where would you send the pain?": Agency and Resilience in Three Children Born of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ch. 13 The Role of Spirituality and Ritual in the Acceptance of Children born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Ch. 14 Moving Beyond Rwanda's "Children of Bad Memory": A Conversation on Working with Mothers and Children Born of Wartime Rape

Ch. 15 Local Inspiration, Global Implementation: Upholding the Rights of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence