2008 Course Reading - Introduction to the Balkans Conflicts
OBLIGATORY:
The role of ethnicity in ethnic conflicts: The case of Yugoslavia
The Contexts of Religion and Violence
Dismembering Yugoslavia: Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide
Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia (part 1)
Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia (part 2)
Feminist Resistance to War and Violence in Serbia (part 3)
The logic of the war in Bosnia
Another Way For Kosovo?
Myth, collective trauma and war in Serbia: a cultural hermeneutical appraisal
US/NATO Intervention Executive Summary
The Hague Tribunal and Balkan Reconciliation
Timeline: Countdown to conflict
OPTIONAL:
Islam and Politics in the Post-Communist Balkans
The Banality of "Ethnic War": Yugoslavia and Rwanda
The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland’s Response Curriculum - The Battle Over Kosovo
What does mean "community rehabilitation"? Anthropological suggestions on violence, trauma, adolescents, and ideology of memory
The Role Of "Kum" In Serbian Politics
Memory, Cultural Transmission and Investments
History and politics influence Israeli debate over NATO action
SREBRENICA - Remembrance for the Future
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Serbia
The History of Yugoslavia
Country Information for Serbia
Map of Central Balkan Region
Kosovo
Country Information of Kosovo
History of Kosovo to 1918
Map of Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
History of the War in Bosnia
Country Information for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Who are the Bosnians?
Chronicle of Srebrenica Massacre
Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Books
The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andric, Nobel Price in 1961, warmly recommended!
The Damned Yard and other stories, Ivo Andric
Death and the Dervish, Mesa Selimovic
Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavic