30. April 2025.
Before you are electronic versions of two collections of scientific papers, “Sources and Actors – New Studies of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s” and “Reviews of the Wars of the 1990s”, which in different ways address topics related to the wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. What makes these two collections of papers particularly special, in addition to the topics themselves and the fact that they are collections of scientific papers published by a civil society organization, is that the authors of the texts are young historians and young scholars from other related disciplines, such as art history, sociology, communication studies, etc.
In this way, these two collections have given space to a new generation of researchers to engage in research on topics that the academic public in Serbia is still somewhat shy of, especially in the field of scientific paper production. In addition, topics related to the events during the wars of the 1990s are most often viewed through the prism of daily politics, which usually carries with it a large dose of non-objectivity, bias and emotions.
That is why the special value of the collection before you is precisely the success and achievement of these young people – that, despite being only at the beginning of their academic careers, they managed to “come to grips” with the topic of the wars of the 1990s in an objective, healthy and mature way, bring new perspectives to their study and thus show that dealing with the region’s war past and facing it is the path towards recovery, building trust and a common peaceful future.
You can download the proceedings by clicking the button below.
The collection “Sources and Actors – New Studies of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s” has been translated into English. You can download the English edition by clicking the button below:
The collections of works by young researchers “Reviews of the Wars of the 1990s” and “Sources and Actors – New Studies of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s” were published as part of the project “Dealing with the Past – New Generations, New Perspectives” implemented by Civic Initiatives as part of the project “European Union Support for Confidence-Building in the Western Balkans”, funded by the EU and implemented by UNDP, and implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.