Bosnia The Good: Tolerance And Tradition
by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic /
2000 / English / PDF
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"Bosnia the Good" is an indictment of the partition of Bosnia, fomalized in 1995 by the Dayton Accord, and an appeal on the author's part for Bosnia's communities to reject ethnic segregation and restore mutual trust. A claim for the history and reality of Bosnia-Herzegovina based upon a model of `unity in diversity' is supported through the ethnic and religious cultures that were shown to co-exist in Bosnia for centuries previous.
The blame for present conflicts can be attributed to Croation and Serb leaders who are determined to enact their own nationalist programs. The author further argues that the decisive moment when the international community accepted the Serb/Croat argument that ancient ethnic hatreds were endemic to Bosnia caused ethnic segregation to be seen not only as acceptable but desirable.
