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It is estimated around 1.9 million German women were raped in the post-World War II period. Unwanted pregnancies were common and many women went on to raise these children born of sexual violence (CBSV). Now more than 70 years later, we sought to explore the perceptions of past and present relationships of CBSV with their mothers. Using a combinati...
This chapter investigatesmothers who are survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and their children born of war rape (CBOWR), and discusses the specifics of their mother-child relationships from a psychological and intergenerational perspective. The theoretically derived assumptions about the psychological burden of the mothers that re...
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A myriad of factors including socio-economic hardships impact refugees, with females being additionally exposed to various forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The aim of this qualitative analysis was to understand and to provide new insight into the experiences of SGBV among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon.
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Lebanon hosts over one million refugees displaced from Syria as a result of the armed conflict—of whom, approximately 15% are adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years of age. Many female adolescent migrants report a decrease in quality of life and an increase in family tensions. This study sought to investigate the emotional well-being of adolescen...
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Children Born of War (CBOW) are important but largely uninvestigated populations. As a result of being fathered by a foreign soldier and born to a local mother, these children often struggle with identity issues and search for their absent fathers their whole lives. Despite CBOW being a part of every society, which has been involved in a...
Background: A myriad of factors including socio-economic hardships impact refugees, with females being additionally exposed to various forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). For instance, sexual exploitation and forced prostitution can become negative coping mechanisms through which some women and girls raise funds to cover their familie...
Background: A myriad of factors including socio-economic hardships impact refugees, with females being additionally exposed to various forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The aim of this qualitative analysis was to provide new insight into the experiences of SGBV among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon. Methods: The data are g...
Background: A myriad of factors including socio-economic hardships impact refugees, with females being additionally exposed to various forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The aim of this qualitative analysis was to understand and to provide new insight into the experiences of SGBV among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon.
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Dieser Beitrag stellt die theoretische Entwicklung des sozialen Lernens dar, also des Lernens durch soziale Interaktion. Erste Erklärungsversuche finden sich im Behaviorismus von Watson, Skinner und Pawlow, die äußere Reize und sichtbare Verhaltensänderungen in den Vordergrund stellten. Die Grundlage der behavioristischen Lerntheorie bildet das Pri...
Through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, the research and training network Children Born of War (CHIBOW) seeks to explore the lives of children born to local mothers and fathered by enemy soldiers, occupying forces, and locally stationed and peacekeeping forces during confl icts of the past one hundred years. Born...
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The Syrian conflict has resulted in over 2.3 million child refugees in the Middle East and the prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased among displaced Syrian families. This study explores the underlying factors contributing to child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the goal of informing community-based strat...
A mixed-method approach is used in this study to better understand the attachment representations of German ”Occupation Children”. At the end of World War II and thereafter, about 400,000 children were born of intimate contacts between soldiers of the occupation forces and German women; as a result of consensual sexual encounters, but also as a con...
The Syrian conflict has displaced over 1.2 million Syrians into Lebanon. As a result of displacement, some Syrian families are turning to child marriage as a coping mechanism. The prevalence of early marriage has reportedly increased and the average age of marriage decreased during the crisis. The aim of the project was to understand the underlying...
This poster provides a scholarly reflection on the process of implementing a field-based SenseMaker® study in Lebanon and examine the challenges and opportunities associated with doing so in other humanitarian settings. SenseMaker® was used to better understand the factors which contribute to child marriage. SenseMaker® is a tablet- or smartphone-b...
