BOSNIAN SERBS AS CREATORS AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR STATE
BOSNIAN SERBS AS CREATORS AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR STATE

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of this discussion, it is necessary to point out that the approach to this subject implies a future within Bosnia-Herzegovina for both those in Bosnia who identify themselves ethnically and nationally as Serbs, and within that group the portion of Serbs who explicitly connect their future to Bosnia. The starting point for this paper differs from the dominant discourse in that it contains elements of a positive prognosis; this automatically sets it apart from current public discourse on the social and political future of this people at the beginning of the 21st century, which usually consists of platitudes and “lamentations” of helplessness. HOPE for the resolution of these issues is the open cry of a helpless people facing an abyss, people with too little time since so much was vainly and irresponsibly wasted. The Bosnian Serbs have too few friends in the world and no internal consensus; without these, not only this group, but the unfortunate and maltreated people as a whole, are without partners. It is also important to point out that this approach to the subject is particular in the way it deals with the recent war against Bosnia. To talk about the Bosnian Serbs without going back to the causes and character of the war seems impossible today, at least when it comes to dominant public (and even theoretical) discourse. However, as every other consideration and prognosis treats the war as an insurmountable obstacle, this approach addresses the war only in its attempts to offer specific observations when defining the divisions in Bosnian society.[...]

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