KONFESIJE I POSTKOMUNISTIČKI SUKOB CIVILIZACIJA
CONFESSIONS AND THE POST-COMMUNIST CONFLICT OF CIVILIZATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The war in former Yugoslavia has been often interpreted as a civil and religious war. The originators of this interpretation readily produce such a judgement with the intention of hiding the genuine cause and purpose of the war, i.e. the factthatthis war started as greater Serbian aggresion against particular former Yugoslav republics, first against Slovenia, then Croatia,and finally Bosnia-Herzegovina. However, some western scholars, as S. P. Huntington, accept such a judgement about civil and religious war, using a ptioti their own theoretical paradigm to explain these events, i.e. the war in former Yugoslavia. The thesis presented in this paper is that it is neither a civil nor religious war. It is about aggression of one particular militarily strong nation and state against other militarily inferior nations and states. The religious differences among various ex-Yugoslav nations and confessions, although these are not the main cause of the conflict, are the fundamental factors in identifying national and cultural particularities.

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