What people believe matters. It matters, most crucially, to decisions about how to act. We all must make sense of
Bosnia
The following analysis appears in Volume 4, Issue 4 of the Peace Science Digest. Citation: Berry, M. E., & Rana, T.
We are witness to transformative change in our society, both in the United States and around the world. Civil resistance
In this issue, we examine a set of articles with a great deal of regional diversity — two articles focus on peacebuilding or peacekeeping in Africa, one looks at resistance to exclusionary nationalism in Bosnia (Europe), another explores “uncivil society” in Bougainville and Timor-Leste (Asia-Pacific), and, finally, one considers military checkpoints in Iraq (Middle East). These articles heighten our awareness of the complexities and challenges involved in peacebuilding after war. All the more reason to avoid war in the first place.
A student-led movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully defeated a government plan to segregate their school. The contagious nature of nonviolent movements may have contributed to their success.