Original scientific paper
VIEWS AND OPINIONS OF THE DISPLACED FROM THE CROATIAN DANUBE BASIN TOWARDS THE SERBIAN POPULATION LIVING IN THE AREA
Ivan Rogić
; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb
Vlado Šakić
; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper deals with the attitudes and opinions of Croatian displaced
persons towards Serbian population living in the Croatian
Danube basin, with regard to the Plan of Peaceful Reintegration,
personal characteristics, intention of return, experience
and relationship with the places of their exile and experience of
war and exile. The data were processed by means of a non-parametric
contingency analysis and relative frequency of the results.
lt was determined that the attitudes and opinions of the Croatian
displaced populations towards Serbian population correlate with
most of variables-predictors. The highest correlation was determined
between the variables describing the traumatic experience of
the war and exile and negative attitudes and opinions of the displaced
on the possibility that the Serbs would continue to live in
the Croatian Danube basin as well as on the prediction of their future
conduct. The general conclusion is that negative attitudes and
opinions of the displaced population based on the experience of
war and exile and emotional attachment to their places of exile. It
should be emphasised that the attitudes of the displaced are not
dominated by the aggressive feelings that could influence the behaviour
of the displaced. The displaced have formed their views
primarily on condition that their personal and family safety would
be ensured upon return. This should include a just, peaceful solution
valuing morality and human dimension of the causes of their
sufferings and traumatic experience as well as of the nature of the
conflict. The results, thus, exclude the possibility that negative attitudes
and opinions reflect any nationality-based prejudice.
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Hrčak ID:
31677
URI
Publication date:
1.3.1997.
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