Intangible Cultural Heritage and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans

Author: Miloš Milenković

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1040091598

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This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their cultural identity. When it is unclear which element of heritage “belongs” to whom, like in the Western Balkans, where the majority of heritage elements are shared, ICH disputes exacerbate conflict. Its mishandling is especially acute when minority heritage is excluded from governmental cultural policies. With a focus on Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, this book has a global thematic scope, theoretical depth, and policy relevance to the scholars of anthropology and heritage studies as well as to those interested in cultural diversity, human rights, and cultural and educational policies. It will serve as a guide for those who professionally use cultural heritage, or want to start doing so, in the processes of reconciliation, stabilization, and development.

Resolving International Conflicts
Resolving International Conflicts

Author: Peter Hay

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9789639776463

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Dedicated to Tibor Vrady. Focuses on international private law and international arbitration.

Understanding the War in Kosovo
Understanding the War in Kosovo

Author: Florian Bieber

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1135761558

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The war in Kosovo has been a defining moment in post-Cold War Europe. Kosovo has great importance beyond the Balkans as the most ambitious attempt of the international community to prevent internal conflicts and rebuild a society destroyed by war and ethnic cleansing. As the danger of ethnic conflict prevails in the region and elsewhere around the world, the experience of Kosovo offers important lessons. This is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict. It examines the underlying causes of the war, the attempts by the international community to intervene, and the war itself in spring 1999. It critically examines the international administration in Kosovo since June 1999 and contextualizes it within the relations of Kosovo to its neighbours and as part of the larger European strategy in Southeastern Europe with the stability pact. It does not seek to promote one interpretation of the conflict and its aftermath, but brings together a range of intellectual arguments from some sixteen researchers from the Balkans, the rest of Europe and North America.

Balkan Memories
Balkan Memories

Author: Tanja Zimmermann

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3839417120

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This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries focus on the diverse transnational (such as Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav etc.) and national (such as Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian etc.) memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, their interference and rivalry. They examine constructions of memory in different media from the 19th century to recent wars. These include longue durée images, breaks and gaps, selection and suppression, traumatic events and the loss of memory, nostalgia, false memory, reactivation, rituals and traces of memory.

Collective Rights
Collective Rights

Author: Miodrag A. Jovanović

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1107007380

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A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of 'value collectivism'.