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An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children’s experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood
List of contents
Maps
The Balkans, 1990
The Balkans, 2003
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1998
The Drina Valley, 1998
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Children in Wartime
1. Fighting Begins
2. The War Goes On
3. Adjusting to Peace
Part Two: Understanding What Happened
4. Why Did We Fight?
5. What Became of Our Neighbors?
6. What Country Is This?
7. Where Do They Come From?
Part Three: Psychosocial Consequences
8. War and Well-being
9. Day after Day
10. Making Sense of Madness
11. Crimes and Punishments
About the author
Lynne Jones is a child psychiatrist, relief worker, anthropologist, and author of
Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They’ve Become. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work in child psychiatry in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe and has established and directed mental health programs in areas of conflict and natural disaster throughout Latin America, the Balkans, East and West Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Her field diaries have been published in
O, The Oprah Magazine and
London Review of Books, and her audio diaries have been broadcast on the BBC World Service.
A Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, visiting scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, research associate in the Developmental Psychiatry Section at the University of Cambridge, and honorary consultant at the Maudsley Hospital in London, Jones was also a senior mental health advisor for the International Medical Corps for seven years and is currently the Early Child Development Adviser for the Aga Khan Foundation in northern Mozambique.
Summary
An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children's experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood
