When I told a colleague with whom I had worked in Sarajevo that I was going to write a chapter on... more When I told a colleague with whom I had worked in Sarajevo that I was going to write a chapter on trauma reduction in Bosnia, he said that if I only had one chapter, I should just cite Bosnian poems. Otherwise, how would I be able to convey the pain and the beauty of people who before the war were living together, one might even say as a married couple, but were now separated and divided by fear and mistrust, while still longing for each other. The bitter betrayals of the war left the marriage scattered; we were many from the outside, from the “international community” who tried to help the partners get back together and rescue the marriage. The question was, how-
During the post-conflict period in Bosnia from September 1996 to September 1997 -I was working in... more During the post-conflict period in Bosnia from September 1996 to September 1997 -I was working in the Democratisation branch of the OSCE the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a psycho-social advisor based in Sarajevo. Thus, my working period started about six months after the Peace Agreement was signed in Dayton, and during the year I was there, I could observe the various challenges of the post-conflict healing process challenges which were, indeed, great and which could easily lead to pessimism and feelings 0f powerlessness.
The Blue Room: Trauma and Testimony Among Refugee Women - A Psycho - Social ExplorationInger Agge... more The Blue Room: Trauma and Testimony Among Refugee Women - A Psycho - Social ExplorationInger Agger London: Zed Books Limited, 1994; 138 pp.Reviewed by Helence Moussa Refugee and Migration Service World Council of Churches Geneva, SwitzerlandThe Blue Room is about socially constructed boundaries (bodily, psychological, cultural, social and political) and the power of shame when women cross these frontiers. Inger Agger, a Danish feminist activist, and a psychologist and researcher, has worked for many years with victims of torture. In this book she investigates how 40 politically active women from the Middle East and Latin America were "punished" and controlled. These women are perceived by the state as "politically dangerous women." A prime motive in strategies to disgrace women is to divest them of their political power, particularly the power of their sexuality. Further - more, women are victimized by these strategies long before they experience organized state ...
When I told a colleague with whom I had worked in Sarajevo that I was going to write a chapter on... more When I told a colleague with whom I had worked in Sarajevo that I was going to write a chapter on trauma reduction in Bosnia, he said that if I only had one chapter, I should just cite Bosnian poems. Otherwise, how would I be able to convey the pain and the beauty of people who before the war were living together, one might even say as a married couple, but were now separated and divided by fear and mistrust, while still longing for each other. The bitter betrayals of the war left the marriage scattered; we were many from the outside, from the “international community” who tried to help the partners get back together and rescue the marriage. The question was, how-
During the post-conflict period in Bosnia from September 1996 to September 1997 -I was working in... more During the post-conflict period in Bosnia from September 1996 to September 1997 -I was working in the Democratisation branch of the OSCE the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a psycho-social advisor based in Sarajevo. Thus, my working period started about six months after the Peace Agreement was signed in Dayton, and during the year I was there, I could observe the various challenges of the post-conflict healing process challenges which were, indeed, great and which could easily lead to pessimism and feelings 0f powerlessness.
The Blue Room: Trauma and Testimony Among Refugee Women - A Psycho - Social ExplorationInger Agge... more The Blue Room: Trauma and Testimony Among Refugee Women - A Psycho - Social ExplorationInger Agger London: Zed Books Limited, 1994; 138 pp.Reviewed by Helence Moussa Refugee and Migration Service World Council of Churches Geneva, SwitzerlandThe Blue Room is about socially constructed boundaries (bodily, psychological, cultural, social and political) and the power of shame when women cross these frontiers. Inger Agger, a Danish feminist activist, and a psychologist and researcher, has worked for many years with victims of torture. In this book she investigates how 40 politically active women from the Middle East and Latin America were "punished" and controlled. These women are perceived by the state as "politically dangerous women." A prime motive in strategies to disgrace women is to divest them of their political power, particularly the power of their sexuality. Further - more, women are victimized by these strategies long before they experience organized state ...
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