Unofficial Storytelling as Middle Ground Between Transitional Truth-Telling and Forgetting : A New Approach to Dealing With the Past in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.638" target="_blank" >10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.638</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unofficial Storytelling as Middle Ground Between Transitional Truth-Telling and Forgetting : A New Approach to Dealing With the Past in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
Original language description
Is transitional truth-telling more beneficial to reconciliation than remaining silent about past crimes? The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate by exploring the impact of "My Story," an NGO initiative that uses multiethnic storytelling by victims of the Bosnian war to promote reconciliation. We report field observations and the results obtained from interviews with young Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs. Empathy, as a reported outcome of the storytelling, seems to enable deeper reflection and attitude change. Respondents reported reduced prejudice, competitive victimhood and blaming, and increased interest in information about the outgroup, increased interest in peace activism, a change of emotions toward the outgroup and feeling guilt for the misdeeds of their ingroup. We conclude that this storytelling initiative is beneficial and worth spreading internationally. It deconstructs many of the same factors that prevent reconciliation that truth commissions aim to deconstruct, while improving interethnic attitudes and enabling to look toward the future, as forgetting does.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
ISSN
1864-1385
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
000478760600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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