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Promoting ‘Positive Stories’ of Help and Rescue from the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An Alternative to the Dichotomy of Guilt and Victimhood?

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  • Moll Nicolas

    (Logavina 11, 71000Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Public discourses about wars and mass violence are often dominated by questions of guilt and victimhood as well as a focus on the figures of ‘perpetrators’ and ‘victims’. This can also be observed concerning the public remembrance of the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. However, attempts were made here to promote the memory of another war-related figure: that of the rescuer who helped people ‘from the other side’. The author analyses these attempts at remembrance in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and places them within the context of global efforts to publicly acknowledge rescuers, in particular the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’.

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  • Moll Nicolas, 2019. "Promoting ‘Positive Stories’ of Help and Rescue from the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An Alternative to the Dichotomy of Guilt and Victimhood?," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 67(4), pages 447-475, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:67:y:2019:i:4:p:447-475:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2019-0036
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