Criteriul religios în geneza şi stingerea conflictelor din spaţiul ex-iugoslav
The Religious Criterium in the Emergence and the Ending of Former Yugoslavian Space Conflicts

Summary/Abstract: The profound cause of the conflicts which lead to Yugoslavia dissolution is a research issue that has not been exhaustively studied yet. The analysis of conflicts religious dimension must be done separately from the social or economical dimension, even if there are natural relations among them. The ethnic-religious and identity conflicts have been justified by the need of minority groups to claim their civil rights in the new created countries, although Popper said that “what we have to require is not only our protection, but also the others’ protection of the state”. One of the post-conflict conclusions is that in a multiethnic state the minority’s loyalty to its structures can not be guaranteed, but the loyalty to their linguistic and cultural values. Too much trust have been invested in the economic factor as being the only instrument able to take the conflict area out of crisis, but there has not been pointed out that culture and mass mentality decisively contributed to generating conflicts. From this point of view, the religion may be considered to have been the constant element which gained after the peace treaties were agreed upon to end these conflicts. This is the reason why, in these states, the religious dimension moved from the conflict area to peace area, getting a distinct sequential importance in the national security plan and enforcing its responsibility in supporting the linguistic, identity and ethnic traditions.

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