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Valentina Otmačić

Resisting Inter-Ethnic Violence

Community Approaches to Conflict Transformation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Valentina Otmačić

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Routledge
02 December 2024

Ethnic studies; EU & European institutions; Public opinion & polls

Series: Southeast European Studies

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.

By: Valentina Otmačić
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781032762807
ISBN 10: 1032762802
Series: Southeast European Studies
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 02 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Resisting Inter-Ethnic Violence: Community Approaches to Conflict Transformation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

In this excellent comparative study Valentina Otmačić explores the processes through which ordinary people create effective mechanisms for the prevention of inter-ethnic violence. This is an empirically rich, innovative, and analytically rigorous study that makes an important contribution to peace studies. Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin and CNAM, Paris For many years, the analytical framework of choice for scholars of ex-Yugoslavia has been ethnic nationalism as seen through the prism of violence and trauma. Through sensitive ethnography and incisive analysis, this important book challenges and indeed, elevates our understanding of the local-level processes where destructive outcomes of conflict not only have but can be averted. Daphne Winland, York University Valentina Otmačić makes an important contribution to the literature of political violence by focusing on the ways that some communities, which she calls the oases of peace, resisted the divisions and the violence that ensued in other communities during the same time. Mila Dragojević, the University of the South