Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . The women in this was not our war teach us how. -William jefferson clintonthis was not our war shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare.A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who founded a veterans’ aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived auschwitz-these women are advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers.They are from all parts of bosnia and represent the full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages.Their ages spread across sixty years, and their wealth ranges from expensive jewels to a few chickens.For all their differences, they have this much in common: all survived the war with enough emotional strength to work toward rebuilding their country.Swanee hunt met these women through her diplomatic and humanitarian work in the 1990s.Over the course of seven years, she conducted multiple interviews with each one.In presenting those interviews here, hunt provides a narrative framework that connects the women’s stories, allowing them to speak to one another. The women describe what it was like living in a vibrant multicultural community that suddenly imploded in an onslaught of violence.They relate the chaos the atrocities...
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