Procesi pomirenja u BiH: rodna/e perspektiva/e
Peacebuilding Processes in B&H: Gender Perspective/s

Author(s): Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Transkulturna Psihosocijalna Obrazovna Fondacija (TPO Foundation)
Keywords: reconciliation; gender; activism; feminism; Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes from the feminist position the interpellation of gender and practices of reconciliation in the context of B&H society, within the framework of research as resistance from the poststructuralist theory of margins. This paper is based on researches conducted by the author herslef, as well as recent researches and theoretical elaborations concerning the place and role of women in reconciliation processes, their achievements, initiatives and controversies in the context of ethno‐nationalist production of "knowledge" through ethnonationalized (new) speech, as well as existing practices of shallow pacification. The paper lays special emphasis on contribution of women in peacemaking activities in the period before, during and after the war, and who were systematically sidelined to the margins by systematic reducing of feminine to passivity. But as such, they represent the niches and points of resistance and deflection whose power lies in the impossibility of their top‐down cooptation.

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