Historiografija i pitanje karaktera rata u Bosni i Hercegovini 1992–1995.
Historiography and the question of the Character of the 1992–1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Mesud Šadinlija
Subject(s): Military history, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Source Material, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: historiography; aggression; Bosnia and Herzegovina; identity; culture of memory;
Summary/Abstract: Aggression was clearly defined in international law in December 1974 by a resolution of the UN General Assembly. In each of the theoretically established stages of armed aggression, which, without exception, imply the widespread use of state power, determining the existence of a crime is an extremely complex legal issue, further complicated by the accompanying political connotations. In post-conflict societies, such as contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian society, the whole issue is much more complex. We considered in which directions the scale of value judgments shifted regarding the character of the war that lasted from 1992 to 1995 from the end of the war to the present. For different tendencies of attitude towards this issue in the historiographies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its surroundings, we have indicated descriptive frameworks, highlighted the main characteristics and differences between them.

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