Managing Hatred and Distrust : The Prognosis for Post-Conflict Settlement in Multiethnic Communities of the Former Yugoslavia

by Dimitrijevic, Nenad; Kovacs, Petra

• ISBN13: 9789639419698
• ISBN10: 9639419699
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr

Summary

The dust has yet to settle in the former Yugoslavia, the receipts have not yet been counted and the total is far from being determined in the Balkans. The authors argue for a breath before anyone might conclude that the barriers have stopped accumulating in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. This volume includes many cases of multiethnic management on the local level and presents both top-down and bottom-up approaches to multiethnic community management that have emerged in the last five years. Stabilization of coexistence has improved government and facilitated return in Bosnia. Reconciliation is happening on the ground in Croatia. Kosovo is battling with an imposed coexistence. Macedonia struggles to recognize ethnic diversity. Serbia is just now assuming responsibility for local initiatives that accommodate diversity in Serbia. There is also a short portrait on provisional state support for minority initiatives in Slovenia.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
List of Tables and Figures	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
INTRODUCTION
Nenad Dimitrijevic and Petra Kovács
Managing Hatred and Distrust: Changes from the Bottom and the Top	xvii
PART ONE STABILIZATION OF COEXISTENCE: IMPROVING GOVERNMENT AND FACILITATING RETURN IN BOSNIA
Peter Lippman
Promoting Return of Refugees: Sarajevo and Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	(18)
Elena Krylova-Mueller
OSCE in Goražde: Can Municipal Authorities Contribute to Local Multiethnic Security?	21	(20)
Allan Rosenbaum
Building One Local Government from Three: A Progress Report from Brcko	41	(22)
PART TWO RECONCILIATION ON THE GROUND: LOCAL INITIATIVES IN CROATIA
Tania Gosselin
Info-Klub: Creating a Common Public Sphere for Citizens of Vukovar	63	(18)
Ivana Djuric
A Success Story: Local Governance in the Multiethnic Municipality of Knezevi Vinogradi, Croatia	81	(20)
PART THREE KOSOVO: AN IMPOSED COEXISTENCE
Duška Anastasijevic
Good Policies Needed Before Good Practices Can Thrive in Kosovo	101	(14)
Florian Bieber
The Legal Framework for Post-War Kosovo and the Myth of Multiethnicity	115	(22)
James S. Rogan
Beginning the Hand-over: UN Administration of a Multiethnic Municipality in Kosovo	137	(30)
Leon Malazogu
Power Sharing in Local Government in Kosova Under International Administration: General Progress and the Case of Gjakova	167	(20)
PART FOUR MUDDLING THROUGH: EFFORTS AIMED AT RECOGNITION OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN MACEDONIA
Albert van Hal
Case Study: The Inter-ethnic Project in Gostivar	187	(18)
Kristina Hadži-Vasileva
Citizen Information Center in Kumanovo Helps Keep Peace by Encouraging Communication	205	(12)
Renata Treneska
Multiethnic Coexistence in the Republic of Macedonia Before and After the Conflict of 2001	217	(22)
PART FIVE ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY: LOCAL INITIATIVES TO ACCOMMODATE DIVERSITY IN SERBIA
Dušan Janjic
From Conflict to Multiethnic Coexistence: The Program of Crisis Solution in Presevo Valley	239	(32)
Marijana Filipovic
A Story of Cooperation: Improving Living Conditions for Roma in Nis	271	(12)
Aleksandar Maksimovic
Refugees in Serbia: A Case Study of the Zabucje Collective Center	283	(12)
Ratko Bubalo
Refugees in Vojvodina: A Minority of Serbs in Serbia	295	(16)
PART SIX SLOVENIA: RECOGNIZING UNOFFICIAL MINORITIES
Sergej Flere and Tomaž Klenovšek
Supporting Cultural Identity of Ethnic Minorities: The Experience of Maribor	311