Unofficial Storytelling as Middle Ground Between Transitional Truth-Telling and Forgetting : A New Approach to Dealing With the Past in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10385831" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10385831 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R1_m.5wJ_e" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R1_m.5wJ_e</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.638" target="_blank" >10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.638</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Unofficial Storytelling as Middle Ground Between Transitional Truth-Telling and Forgetting : A New Approach to Dealing With the Past in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 &quot;My Story,&quot; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Unofficial Storytelling as Middle Ground Between Transitional Truth-Telling and Forgetting : A New Approach to Dealing With the Past in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 &quot;My Story,&quot; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International Journal of Conflict and Violence

ISSN

1864-1385

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

July

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

1-19

Kód UT WoS článku

000478760600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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