The opening chapter to Challenging Conceptions calls for an explicitly, feminist policy of peacebuilding and postconflict reconstruction that focuses not only on incidents and types of violence, but on the outcomes of violence as well. In grappling with conflict-related sexual violence and its legacies, the author asks readers to consider the entire spectrum and life cycle of potential and obvious outcomes: pregnancy, abortion, forced maternity, and children conceived through acts of sexual coercion or outright violence. This chapter aims to rethink some of the assumptions that echo in the literature and in popular culture about children born of conflict-related sexual violence, their mothers, and their lives. By detailing the conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and methodological innovations of the book and its contributors, this chapter summarizes and generates new insights into the lives of children born of wartime sexual violence and its implications for how to study gender, ethnicity, sexuality, violence, and identity.