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Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor

Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor

Pickering, Paula M.

Hardcover

Eastern European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0801445760
ISBN13: 9780801445767
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 9 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.19
Language: English

After suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and democratize a culturally divided society. The global community's strategy has focused on reforming political institutions, influencing the behavior of elite populations, and cultivating nongovernmental organizations. But expensive efforts to promote a stable peace and a multiethnic democracy can be successful only if they resonate among ordinary people. Otherwise, such projects will produce fragile institutions and alienated citizens who will be susceptible to extremists eager to send them back into war. Paula M. Pickering challenges the conventional wisdom that common people are merely passive recipients of peacebuilding projects. Instead, in Peacebuilding in the Balkans, she shows how ordinary people, particularly minorities in Bosnia, understand elite rhetoric and actively shape reconstruction.

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