MONONACIONALNE STRANKE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI I NEGACIJA ZAVNOBIH-A
MONONATIONAL PARTIES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND NEGATION OF ZAVNOBIH

Author(s): Nerzuk Ćurak
Subject(s): Politics, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Nationalism Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Politics and Identity
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Virtue of ZAVNOBIH; Nationalism; Elite; Monoethnic Parties; Democracy; Citizenship;
Summary/Abstract: The denial of mutual history all the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina share has culminated in a nationalistic triumph and political institutionalization of that ideology through the country’s current political and legal order. This phenomenon will be treated, in the context of philosophy of history, as the culmination of injustice towards one’s own historical self. The author will argue that the crucial source of virtue lies in the ZAVNOBIH heritage, which stands opposed to nationalistic oppression. Moreover, it will be argued that the principles of a more just Bosnian society can be nourished exactly through that heritage. De facto destiny of Bosnia and Herzegovina depends on the capability of the internal political, cultural and intellectual actors to replace the nationalistic tyranny with a social consensus on virtue.

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