Neki segmenti primarnih i socijalnih veza Hrvata i Srba nakon ratnih sukoba
Some Segments of Primary Social Relations between Croats and Serbs after the War

Summary/Abstract: In the text the author analyses the quality and scope of social interaction between Croats and Serbs after the war and the return/settlement of war migrants in former areas of conflict. In the pre-war period the network of primary social relations in the micro-social ambience of local communities consisted of neighbourhood, marital and generational ties, friendship and other socio-interactive patterns of members of different ethnic groups. Croats and Serbs participated significantly in these networks, while a majority of members of both groups had friends in the other ethnic group. The research shows that friends ended their contacts or simply parted, but there were also many cases when both Croatian and Serbian friends protected each other during the war. What is indicative is that in addition to mutual protection, friends did not more significantly take part in threats and physical attacks against friends of other nationalities. This made their meeting after the war easier, so they mostly cautiously or unreservedly renewed their communication, which can be regarded in the post-war situation as social capital for regenerating networks of primary social ties in a local ambience. The answers of the respondents in these cases as well indicate a relatively tolerant atmosphere, at least in the field of attitudes, which will certainly in part have a positive influence on post-war processes, one of the more important goals of which is the integration of all actors from the former war areas into the social habitus of local communities.

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