Sumários
Rethinking Reconciliation in Postwar Sarajevo (Bosnia- Herzegovina): Antinationalism and Responses to the Politics of International Intervention
8 Abril 2022, 18:00 • Rita Sousa
Reconciliation became the buzzword of post-conflict intervention policy after the Dayton Peace
Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995, but at the same time it has reinforced national division and segregation along ethno-religious lines. Until recently, the concept of reconciliation was not problematized, but in the last decades we have gained a more critical view of the outcomes of external efforts aimed at achieving the transformation of war-torn societies. Anthropological studies in particular have focused on the local responses and meanings that people associate with external policy initiatives in various contexts of international intervention. This lecture follows this current by ethnographically
examining the attitudes of Sarajevo residents toward reconciliation and, by looking at local responses to the politics of international intervention in the post-Yugoslav space, highlights some of the pitfalls of the current politics of post-war reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The particular focus, however, is on antinationalism as a survival strategy and political critique in the turbulent socioeconomic circumstances.
War and postwar reconstruction - anti-nationalist attitudes in Sarajevo
8 Abril 2022, 18:00 • Rita Sousa
Rethinking Reconciliation in Postwar Sarajevo (Bosnia- Herzegovina): Antinationalism and Responses to the Politics of International Intervention
8 Abril 2022, 18:00 • Rita Sousa
Reconciliation became the buzzword of post-conflict intervention policy after the Dayton Peace
Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995, but at the same time it has reinforced national division and segregation along ethno-religious lines. Until recently, the concept of reconciliation was not problematized, but in the last decades we have gained a more critical view of the outcomes of external efforts aimed at achieving the transformation of war-torn societies. Anthropological studies in particular have focused on the local responses and meanings that people associate with external policy initiatives in various contexts of international intervention. This lecture follows this current by ethnographically
examining the attitudes of Sarajevo residents toward reconciliation and, by looking at local responses to the politics of international intervention in the post-Yugoslav space, highlights some of the pitfalls of the current politics of post-war reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The particular focus, however, is on antinationalism as a survival strategy and political critique in the turbulent socioeconomic circumstances.
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30 Março 2022, 20:30 • Rita Sousa
External-led intervention, peace-building and reconstruction in Afghanistan
Student-led seminar
Group presentations
Literature Review
Breakout rooms
Collective discussion
Conclusions