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5 - ‘Actively Preparing Children for New Conflicts’

Competing Histories and Education for (Non-)Recurrence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2025

Maja Davidović
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Chapter 5 continues to explore the connections and disconnections between the transitional justice project and non-recurrence of conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). It proposes that education can make or break meaningful assurances of conflict non-recurrence. The chapter demonstrates how ethnically segregated history teaching in BiH plays a key role in the maintenance of a post-conflict status quo which has frozen certain anxieties around the uncertain future of peace in the country. Further, the chapter posits that the global project of transitional justice, while not responsible for the burgeoning ethnonationalism, has actively made bad situations worse with its short-sighted security priorities and general misunderstanding of security as lived experience. In particular, the chapter focuses on how and why the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia undertook a role of an educator of the BiH youth and public and how the advocates of the transitional justice project have ignored the complexity of the prevention needs of the BiH society.

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Governing the Past
‘Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project
, pp. 124 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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