The EuroWARCHILD project has explored cases in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The term CBOW refers to children fathered by enemy soldiers in times of war, by either sexual violence or consensual relations. The research team has gathered data by interviewing children born by WWII as well as the Balkan conflict of the 1990s and mapped the media coverage of the repatriation of children born by European foreign fighters to ISIS. The project has analyzed relevant international normative frameworks which encompass or omit the plight of CBOWs.
During the span of the project, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. An intensifying new European conflict means new CBOWs are being born today. A central aim of the EuroWARCHILD project is to learn from the past, and to improve the future for new groups of CBOWs. The discussions at the conference are therefore increasingly urgent and important, given the backdrop of a new security and geopolitical landscape in Europe.
This concluding conference of the EuroWARCHILD project aims to present and discuss findings from the project. It has been funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, 2021–2026.
To see the full program and sign up for the conference, please see the event page at the host PRIO.
If You want to know even more about the project, read about EuroWARCHILD on it's webpage here.