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Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Stage of Three Parallel and Conflicted Historical Memories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Dubravko Lovrenović*
Affiliation:
Sarajevo, Branislava Nušića 166, Bosnia and Herzegovina. E-mail: dulov@bih.net.ba

Abstract

Among Bosnian and Herzegovinian ethno-confessional nations there exist three parallel and conflicted historical memories. The dominance of patriarchal social forms without democratic tradition is the most profoundly rooted cause of this condition of mutual alienation and forms a major obstacle on the path towards the creation of a democratic political culture. The Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (henceforth BiH) in 1995, also contributes to this situation by cementing the status of ethnic divisions in the country, thus leading to its disintegration.

Type
Regimes of Memory II
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2016 

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