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BETWEEN FRAGMENTING AND MULTIPLYING: EXPANSION OF SERBIAN AND CROATIAN ANTI-WAR INITIATIVES
Bojan Bilić
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This paper follows the almost contemporaneous emergence of the two primary anti-war initiatives in Belgrade and Zagreb to explore how they acted as hotbeds from which permanent human rights organisations appeared in the newly created nation-states. Drawing mostly upon in-depth interviews with the anti-war activists from Serbia and Croatia, I argue that the dominant patterns of protest expansion in these two countries were different. While cooperations and tensions existed among the anti-war groups in both cases, the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia acted as a broker leading towards a multiplication of civic initiatives. On the other hand, the Belgrade Centre for Anti-War Action was characterised by ideological, professional and personal divisions which caused a rapid fragmentation of anti-war undertakings. This paper outlines the main reasons for such expansion patterns (scale shift) and discusses them in the light of recent theoretical advances in political contention studies.
Ključne riječi
anti-war initiatives; Croatia; Serbia; fragmentation; multiplication
Hrčak ID:
98575
URI
Datum izdavanja:
27.12.2012.
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