1st Edition
Resisting Inter-Ethnic Violence Community Approaches to Conflict Transformation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
This book analyses the 1991 to 1995 war experiences of ethnically mixed communities who successfully resisted identity-based violence and segregation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Challenging the prevailing view of the wars in these countries as ethnic struggles rooted in historical antagonisms, it adds complexity to our understanding of peace and violence by contributing previously untapped insights into local dynamics of inter-ethnic collaboration. Exploring the strategies and approaches applied to resist violence and to transform conflict in a constructive manner, it provides an important comparative analysis of the experiences and proposes a framework for community resistance to identity-based violence in multi-ethnic societies.
This volume will contribute to the ongoing debates of scholars and practitioners on the causes and consequences of violent conflicts, and the related practical approaches to violence prevention and peacebuilding. Highly relevant to scholars and students in peace and conflict studies, political science, international relations, security studies, history, sociology, and social psychology, it willalso be of great interest to policy makers and practitioners in conflict management, conflict transformation and local governance.
This book analyses the 1991 to 1995 war experiences of ethnically mixed Balkan communities who successfully resisted identity-based violence and segregation. Challenging the prevailing view of violent conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as ethnic struggles rooted in historical antagonisms, it adds complexity to our understanding by contributing previously untapped insights into local dynamics of inter-ethnic collaboration. Exploring the strategies and approaches applied to resist violence and to transform conflict in a constructive manner, provides an important comparative analysis of the experiences and proposes a framework for community resistance to identity-based violence in multi-ethnic societies.
This volume will contribute to the ongoing debates of scholars and practitioners on the causes and consequences of violent conflicts, and the related practical approaches to violence prevention and peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, political science, international relations, security studies, history, sociology, and social psychology. It is also of great interest to policy makers and practitioners in conflict management, conflict transformation, local governance, violence prevention and peacebuilding.
Biography
Valentina Otmačić is a scholar and practitioner in the fields of conflict transformation, peace and human rights. Affiliated to the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Rijeka (Croatia), she holds a Ph.D. in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford (UK).
