This call is published in the frame of Module 5 of the Project “Amplifying Voices of Women affected by war-related SGBV in the Western Balkans – For a culture of Recognition and Reconciliation” (June 2024 – August 2027). Aim of the project is to contribute to creating a culture of recognition and reconciliation in the Western Balkans, which enables women survivors of war related SGBV to live in dignity and free from violence. It is implemented by Medica Zenica and Vive Žene (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims and Medica Gjakova (Kosovo), Women in Black, Autonomous Women’s Centre and Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbia), together with medica mondiale e.V. (Germany). 

Module 5 “Joint Advocacy, Networking, and Mutual learning” aims at increasing the recognition of the project partners as experts for feminist approaches to Dealing with the Past in political national and regional reconciliation processes.   

This includes, among others the Development of a conceptual framework for a comprehensive Toolkit on Feminist Dealing with the Past that includes joint evidence-based methods to support survivors of war related SGBV in the Western Balkans and for the prevention of transgenerational trauma. Within the first phase of the project, a compilation of methods and tools of all partners to support the rehabilitation and recognition of survivors of war-related SGBV has been put together. Within this second phase, the toolkit should be further developed to describe feminist approaches to Dealing with the Past rooted in the practical experience of the partner organizations within an overarching theoretical framework. It´s envisaged to organize a conference in the last project year to present the toolkit, and to use it for future advocacy efforts.

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