Julianne Funk is Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, and Managing Editor of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. Nancy Good is a trauma therapist and international therapist consultant with The KonTerra Group and Portland Trauma Recovery. For 20 years she was faculty with Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, USA. Marie E. Berry is Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA.
'This collection focuses on collective trauma (as distinguished from individualized trauma, typically associated with PTSD), a social phenomenon that must be addressed in countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that underwent horrendous civil warfare. Chapters advance reasons why a multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach can promote a sustainable peace in BiH, albeit very gradually, where social trauma abounds, stemming from the ethnic cleansing and mass rape of tens of thousands of people in the 1990s. ... Expressing a feminist perspective, most contributors strongly suggest ways in which mental health disciplines can complement efforts to build sustainable reconciliation and peace in traumatized states. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students.'--P.G. Conway, SUNY College at Oneonta, CHOICE