A religious-ethnic analysis of Srebrenica from the arrival of the Slavs to the present day
Multiculturalism in the shadow of a genocide
Keywords:
Sebrenica, Bosnia and Hercegovina, western Balkans, security policy, religion
Abstract
The name of the city in Eastern Bosnia has become a synonymous with the genocidecommitted against more than 8.000 muslims in 1995. From the ethnic cleaning, through theresponsibility of the UN peacekeepers to the psychology of forgivness countless studies havebeen published about one of the most shocking events of the Yugoslav war. In this paper theauthor presents demographic, political and religious-ethnic analysis of the city, historicalbackground and examining the opportunities of the city taking the political structure ofBosnia and Herzegovina into account.