ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of the concepts discussed in this book. The book addresses the gap through the adoption of a longue durée perspective. More than 20 years after the Bosnian war ended, it has empirically explored a pivotal 'life-trauma dialectic', by looking at how the trauma of rape and sexual violence continues to affect and shape the lives of survivors today. The book demonstrates that victimhood and agency can comfortably co-exist and that many survivors suffered multiple traumas during the Bosnian war, including forced displacement, beatings and the loss of loved-ones. It has thus introduced and discussed the idea of 'entangled traumas', to emphasize that rape trauma does not exist in a vacuum. The book explores the wider effects of rape and sexual violence on survivors' families and looks at some of the ways in which rape and sexual violence in BiH affected interviewees' conjugal relations.
