After suffering a trauma at the hands of a stranger, a young woman quietly breaking under the weight of expectation and haunted by tragedies in her past, must break down her life and rebuild it. As she slowly realizes that the man she loves no longer fits with the person she is becoming, the stranger reappears to accompany her on her journey to remake herself. To survive what happened to her and emerge as a stronger person, she has to work with the man who stole her life and find the strength within herself to forgive.

Tracing the movements of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition - Schwartz draws on place names, historical chronicles, epitaphs, folk ballads, banned books and the media. He explores these communities who, hundreds of years after forced exile, were almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections. Sarajevo Roses is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move . On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to Krujë, to the Italian ghost-town Craco, and to St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where 'selfie-sticks dance before us at the altar'. Sarajevo's 'neatened muddle of terracotta and concrete' is twinned with the 'church spires and rain-bright roofs' of the poet's former hometown, Lincoln. The Sarajevo rose of the book's title – a mortar crater filled with red resin, in remembrance – is less an overarching symbol here than one example of the past inscribed upon the present – culturally in our architecture, individually on our bodies – and of the instinct to preserve wounds as a mark of respect, or warning. Surrounded by the war-shaped, memorial landscapes of Europe, the poet is faced by those smaller wars and memorials one carries within, marks left by lovers, friends, relations, and past selves.

Offers a new interdiscplinary analytical tool for examining post-conflict tranformation Presents five key post-conflict case studies to show link between agency and power Will be of interest to students of to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general

After suffering a trauma at the hands of a stranger, a young woman quietly breaking under the weight of expectation and haunted by tragedies in her past, must break down her life and rebuild it. As she slowly realizes that the man she loves no longer fits with the person she is becoming, the stranger reappears to accompany her on her journey to remake herself. To survive what happened to her and emerge as a stronger person, she has to work with the man who stole her life and find the strength within herself to forgive.