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This paper contains some of the most important results obtained from surveys on domestic violence in Serbia and Macedonia, as well as from a survey on violence against women in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These surveys have confirmed the results of other research showing that wife abuse is one of the most serious yet at the same time most hidden forms of victimization. It represents the manifestation of power and control over the victim, leading to a loss of trust and a threat to safety. Bearing that in mind, the aim of this paper is to examine the prevalence, structure and some features of wife abuse in the post-war societies of the former Yugoslavia, based on an analysis of the results of these surveys, with particular emphasis on the impact of the economic crisis and war on this phenomenon.

Posedovanje vatrenog oružja, bilo da je ono u legalnom ili nelegalnom posedu, predstavlja faktor rizika za nasilje u porodici, posebno za teže oblike nasilja, uključujući femicid. Rad ima za cilj da ukaže na rodnu dimenziju zloupotrebe vatrenog oružja u porodično-partnerskom kontekstu i neophodnost međusobnog usaglašavanja pozitivnih propisa i politika u cilju efikasnijeg suzbijanja i sprečavanja nasilja u porodici zloupotrebom vatrenog oružja. Rad se zasniva na triangulaciji podataka prikupljenih iz različitih izvora, uključujući dosadašnja istraživanja, podatke koje beleže i evidentiraju državni organi u vezi sa zloupotrebom vatrenog oružja u porodično-partnerskom kontekstu, pozitivnopravne propise i javne politike relevantne za suzbijanje i reagovanje u slučaju nasilja u porodičnom i partnerskom kontekstu upotrebom vatrenog oružja. Istraživanja pokazuju da prisustvo vatrenog oružja povećava za pet do devet puta rizik od smrtnog ishoda u slučajevima porodičnog nasilja. Većina žrtava porodičnih ubistava zloupotrebom vatrenog oružja su žene. One su u najvećem broju slučajeva žrtve svojih partnera. I pored toga što je država unapredila pravni i strateški okvir za sprečavanje nasilja u porodici, broj slučajeva oružanog nasilja u porodičnom kontekstu ostaje stabilan. Takođe, broj žena ubijenih u porodično-partnerskom kontekstu na godišnjem nivou u Srbiji je na sličnom nivou, bez većih oscilacija. Sve to upućuje na zaključak da je neophodno unaprediti delotvornost regulative i politika u ovoj oblasti.

Since the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions have been faced with multiple upheavals of interethnic violence, bloody secessions and ethnic cleansing. Up to the present, both regions are confronted with unresolved border, minority and security issues, matters of recognition, protracted traumata and claims for justice. After the fall of the iron curtain, simmering ethnic tensions turned into hot wars that created new states, new power-political hierarchies and a heritage of violence. Reaching back to the early 1990s, several international and national transitional justice measures have been applied to face these heritages and lay the foundations for a common future. For the former Yugoslavia, they range from broad criminal trials to a series of restorative justice mechanisms; in the North and South Caucasus they encompass numerous mediation measures and primarily restorative justice efforts. The present volume is concerned with strategies of conflict resolution and prevention subsumed under the concept of reconciliation. It aims at understanding the socio-emotional root causes of political cleavages and daily realities of (post-) conflict societies, especially regarding the impact of competing narratives and unprocessed pasts on exclusive identities and strategic political choices. Applying reconciliation theory, insights from collective memory and transitional justice to a series of selected field studies, it sheds light on the origins of interethnic violence, aims at finding explanations for the fact that many of the above-mentioned conflicts have become intractable and discusses the chances and challenges for transforming interests, emotions, perspectives, roles and identities between and within the respective societies.