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Lecture -- A War over Genocide: Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina Facing/Faking Their Past

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 12:00pm
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored By: 
University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies

One of the core assumptions underpinning the EU’s operations is that the implementation of the human rights principles is crucial for democratization processes and for coming to terms with the past, in particular in post-conflict settings. However, despite these efforts, nationalism, which opposes the uniform standardization of global rights, still remains the most potent ideology across the globe, in particular in conflict and post-conflict settings.