Within-Bosniak antagonisms and conflict - obstacle to faster recognition of Bosniak identity Cover Image

Unutarbošnjačke suprotstavljenosti i sukobljenosti – zapreka bržoj afirmaciji bošnjačkog identiteta
Within-Bosniak antagonisms and conflict - obstacle to faster recognition of Bosniak identity

Author(s): Adib Đozić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«

Summary/Abstract: The Bosniac weakness of constantly being at odds, of conflictual relations in collective activities, can no longer be passed over in silence. All well as all their accurate analyses of and opposition to the external causes of their own suffering, and above all the elimination of the danger posed by the greaterstate aspirations of their neighbours, the Bosniacs are inescapably faced with their own internal political and ideological fallacies and conflicts and the urgent need to reach consensus on the key issues of their national evolution. In their current environment, often surrounded by misunderstanding and antipathy, the Bosniacs, as a small nation, cannot allow themselves the “luxury” of divisions, ideological and political clashes, disagreements and discord. Having fought for and won the right to their own nationality and state, denied them for such a long time, they now risk putting it in jeopardy if Bosniac activity at the collective level does not free itself of political conflicts, ideological discord, social and regional divisions, disorientation, apathy and, above all, political and economic amateurism, not to say illiteracy. The way to overcome internal Bosniac disagreements and political clashes is to come together around the spiritual and conceptual nucleus of their own identity and the idea of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 10-18
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian