The Never-Ending Quest for Sense: Women and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
The Never-Ending Quest for Sense: Women and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

Author(s): Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, Adriana Zaharijević
Contributor(s): Milan Marković (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Peace and Conflict Studies, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fondacija CURE
Keywords: Peacebuilding; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Serbia; war; genocide; women; women peace activists;
Summary/Abstract: This writing was produced based on the results of reflection on the reach of women’s peace activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, as well as on interviews with activists of different generations, carried out during the summer of 2021. Even before we started the writing process, we knew that women peace activists should get the most of the credit for saving the “face and honour” – to use these words rarely associated with feminism – of both these countries. However, we also knew that the experiences of war and destruction, and ergo peace building, had been largely dissimilar in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia, to the point where they were perhaps incomparable. Our aim was thus to try to explain the context in which we lived and acted, and to compare the reflections by those seeking for peace to be much more than the absence of war. This text is therefore, a chorus of women’s voices joined together, as in a Greek tragedy, to explain what is not there, even though it could and should have been attained.

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