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Haveric, Dzavid, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Islamisation of Bosnia: Early Islamic influence on Bosnian society." Deakin University. School of Social and International Studies, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051123.133900.

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This Masters thesis examines the process of the Islamisation of Bosnia from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century. This era of early Islamic influence has not previously been systematically studied, and remains an area little understood by many medievalists. The major foci of the analysis are the pre-Ottoman era and early Ottoman periods. This thesis raises the following research questions: When and how did the first Islamisation of the Balkan Slavs (including Bosnians) occur? How did Islam influence Bosnian society and culture, and where were the Bosnian Muslim settlements established? This thesis includes a detailed historical investigation that makes use of a range of bibliographic materials. These consist of fragmentary works, archival and administrative documents and other relevant factography collected from a research field trip to Bosnia between June 27 and July 24, 2003. The main findings reveal the complexity of this culturo-religious process in terms of both the early Islamic influence and contemporary cultural diversity. While different theoretical approaches to cultural representation and social space assist in exploring the hybrid nature of Bosniak identity, the primary and secondary data analyses highlight the significance of the phenomenon of the early Islamisation of Bosnia
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Hagman, Hans-Christian. "UN-NATO operational co-operation in peacekeeping 1992-1995." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300811.

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Bellou, Fotini. "American leadership image and the Yugoslav crisis (1991-1997)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326144.

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Krijestorac, Mirsad. "Nationalism as a Process for Making the Desired Identity Salient: Bosnian Muslims Become Bosniaks." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3004.

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This study is concerned with the particular relationship between the process of nationalism and a group’s salient identity. It proposes that nationalism as the independent variable serves as a principal factor and facilitator for a change of identity, which is seen as the dependent variable. The Bosnian Muslim emergence as an independent nation with the new salient Bosniak identity was used as a case study to test the main proposition. The inquiry was completed through a mixed research method, using grounded theory and the historic process tracing technique, a large survey analysis collected specifically for this study, and a logistic regression as a concluding test. The historic process tracing method describes the Bosnian Muslim group’s development from a distinct Balkan Ottoman religious millet group, through a stage of its own ethno-religious cultural crystallization, another stage of nationality during the Communist era, to an independent nation that now shares the country of Bosnia-Herzegovina with two other nations. Through their struggle to survive and re-assert themselves as an important local political entity, Bosniaks built their nationalism upon three important themes: B-H integrity, Bosnian Islam, and the Bosnian language. A 68-question survey regarding these three themes designed specifically for this study was conducted, and 670 survey responses were collected from the Bosnian Muslim diaspora population living throughout the Midwestern and Eastern U.S. in their Appadurai-type neighborhoods. The data collected from those surveys were manipulated in preparation for a final analysis. The two nationalism indexes measuring intensity and type, and six categories of Bosniak identity, were constructed to observe interactions between nationalism and identity. As the final step, a statistical analysis with multinomial logistic regression confirmed the proposition and showed that the factor which stimulates selection of a new desired salient identity is intensity of nationalism, not type of nationalism . This work contributes to the ongoing discussion on the true role of nationalism as a collective action. At the same time, it provides the field of comparative politics with a comprehensive description of the emergence of Bosnian Muslims as a nation, and with details of their nationalism project and their now salient Bosniak identity.
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Cary, Nathan Jess. "Bosnian Immigrants: An Analysis of the Bosnian Community's Influence on the Cultural Landscape of Bowling Green, KY." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1235.

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Diasporas have been occurring for thousands of years, and today globalization has facilitated the quick rate at which diasporas occur on a global scale. Diasporas entail the mass movement of refugees across international borders, and diasporic peoples today now find themselves journeying across oceans and continents to the safety of host cities in a matter of weeks or days. My research analyzes the effects that Bosnian immigrants have had on the cultural landscape of Bowling Green, Kentucky. When people move, they bring their cultures with them, and this type of cultural diffusion impacts the landscape of the host cities. As geographic research on diasporas is limited, this study aims to fill the gap that exists. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was selected for this analysis due to its large refugee population. Some of Bowling Green’s refugee population is comprised of immigrants from Iraq, Burma, Cambodia, and Sudan. Bosnians comprise the largest population of refugees in the city. In addition to examining immigrant policies and theories, the impacts of the Bosnian diaspora on Bowling Green’s cultural landscape will also be identified. Understanding how those cultures modify landscapes is an important part of diasporic research. The data used for this study were acquired through surveys, census details, telephone directories, interviews, and the extant literature. The hypothesis of this study is that Bosnian immigrants have a stronger visual impact on Bowling Green’s cultural landscape than other immigrant ethnic groups due to their large representation in the city.
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Keskin, Recep. "The dispute between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2315.

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In 1918, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes established a kingdom called "Yugoslavia." Serbs were considering this state as the state of Serbs. Bosnia Hercegovina's community or political powers did not help the establishment of Yugoslavia. The official ideology considered Muslims as the heir of the Ottoman occupiers in the Balkans. In the first Yugoslavia, Bosnian Muslims were under pressure and they were attacked by Serbs who had the official support of the administration. In time those attacks turned into ethnic cleansing. Bosnian Muslims were pushed out of the government bureaucracy and their lands.
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Mujagić, Adnan. "The enterprise recovery process in Bosnian transitional conditions." Thesis, University of Buckingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483659.

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Hayes, Nicola. "Bosnian women's experience of war, loss and resettlement." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31212.

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Section one: literature review The literature on the mental health difficulties and obstacles faced by refugees, and the challenges to services in meeting their needs is reviewed. The review highlights issues specific to refugee women and focuses on research on Bosnian refugees and loss, highlighting that research that reduces refugees experiences to pathology abstracts from their lived realities and concerns. Alternative approaches that account for women refugee's voices on their experiences of war, loss and resettlement and implications for services are required.;Section two: research report The study explored Bosnian Muslim women refugee's experiences of war, loss and resettlement in the UK. The obstacles refugee women face are often overlooked in research and consequently their needs are often not incorporated into service and policy planning. The context of the war in Bosnia and UK resettlement experiences of Bosnian refugees are presented as a backdrop to the study. Eight interviews were conducted with four women. The research employed grounded theory methods. A conceptual model was constructed comprising a core category and a model of the processes of war and resettlement. Interconnectedness was identified as the core category encompassing interconnections within the family and between family and their social community. The social destruction of war and restoring and adapting life in a new country results in the fragmentation of these systems. Restoring and adapting life is characterised by living a different kind of life and adapting roles to meet changing family needs. Keeping in touch with Bosnia and opportunities in the UK moderate the difficulties associated with their new life. Participants identified enduring effects of war on relationships that were salient to them currently. The study generates implications for clinicians working with Bosnian women refugees. Further research would benefit from exploring the experience of a more diverse sample using participatory research methodologies.;Section three: critical appraisal The critical appraisal reflects on the course of the research based on the author's research diary. What was learned through the research process is considered in relation to future research and research with refugee populations.
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Berg, H. (Henri). "Itsetietoinen suurvalta:Iso-Britannian suhtautuminen Bosnian kriisiin 1908–1909." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201304051150.

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Pro gradu -tutkielmani tarkastelee Iso-Britannian suhtautumista Bosnian kriisiksi kutsuttuun tapahtumasarjaan, joka käynnistyi kun Itävalta-Unkari liitti ennen Turkille kuuluneet Bosnian ja Hertsegovinan maakunnat alueisiinsa vuonna 1908. Kriisi päättyi seuraavana vuonna Serbian tunnustettua viimeisenä valtiona maakuntien liittämisen kaksoismonarkiaan. Iso-Britannian suhtautumisen kautta pyrin erittelemään Iso-Britannian ulkopolitiikan pyrkimyksiä kriisin aikana ja yleisemmin. Arvioin kuinka Iso-Britannian ulkoministeriö onnistui asettamiensa tavoitteiden toteuttamisessa. Tarkastelen kuinka Iso-Britannian yleinen poliittinen linja vaikutti suhtautumiseen Bosnian kriisiin, ja kuinka Bosnian kriisi vaikutti Iso-Britannian yleiseen ulkopoliittiseen linjaan. Iso-Britannia ei pitänyt Itävalta-Unkarin ilmoituksesta liittää Bosnia ja Hertsegovina alueisiinsa. Itävalta-Unkarin katsottiin rikkoneen kansainvälisiä sopimuksia. Iso-Britannian ulkoministeriö pelkäsi seurauksena olevan voimatasapainon järkkyminen, levottomuudet Balkanilla ja Turkin jakaminen. Turkin uusi nuorturkkilainen hallinto oli Iso-Britannian mielestä parlamentaarinen, perustuslaillinen ja liberaali, eikä ulkoministeriö halunnut Iso-Britannialle ystävällismielisen hallinnon kaatuvan. Iso-Britannia mielsi itsensä parlamentarismin mallimaaksi ja halusi nähdä samalla tavalla hallittuja valtioita kaikkialla maailmassa. Venäjän ehdotusta Bosporinsalmen aukaisemisesta Mustanmeren valtioille ei Iso-Britannia voinut hyväksyä. Välimeren kautta kulkivat Iso-Britannialle tärkeät kauppareitit, eikä Venäjän Mustanmeren laivastoa haluttu päästää niitä uhkaamaan. Venäjän kanssa solmittu entente cordiale ei ollut poistanut sodan mahdollisuutta. Iso-Britannia kieltäytyi Venäjän ehdotuksesta, mutta onnistui säilyttämään hyvät suhteet kumppaniinsa. Balkanin slaavivaltiot pelkäsivät Itävalta-Unkarin etenemistä ja hakivat turvaa neuvottelemalla liitosta Turkin kanssa. Iso-Britannia suhtautui näihin neuvotteluihin kielteisesti, koska pelkäsi liiton aiheuttavan Balkanin laajuisen sodan. Iso-Britannia myötävaikutti Turkin ja Itävalta-Unkarin välisen sopimuksen syntymiseen, joka edisti kriisin rauhanomaista ratkaisua. Iso-Britannian toimet kriisin aikana herättivät myös vastustusta. Saksalaiset ja itävaltalaiset lehdet hyökkäsivät Iso-Britannian ulkopolitiikkaa vastaan syyttäen sitä maidensa ongelmista. Iso-Britannia vastasi kritiikkiin pitäen sitä aiheettomana ja loukkaavana. Omaa lehdistöään Iso-Britannia piti vapaana maailman omatuntona. Hyökkäys Iso-Britannian ulkopolitiikkaa vastaan laantui Itävalta-Unkarin allekirjoitettua sopimuksen Turkin kanssa maakuntien hallinnan siirtymisen korvaamisesta rahallisesti. Saksa sai nootillaan Venäjän taipumaan ja hyväksymään Bosnian ja Hertsegovinan liittämisen Itävalta-Unkariin. Iso-Britannian rooli oli rauhanomaisen ratkaisun kannalta tärkeä, koska se sovitteli Itävalta-Unkarin ja Serbian välille rauhanomaisen sopimuksen, jonka ansiosta sota vältettiin. Jos Iso-Britannia ei olisi asettunut kriisissä Saksan ja Itävalta-Unkarin sanelupolitiikkaa vastaan, olisivat nämä saattaneet miehittää Serbian. Kriisin seurauksena Iso-Britannian ulkopolitiikan suuntaa arvosteltiin, mutta lopulta se säilyi samana. Entente cordialet Ranskan ja Venäjän suuntaan pysyivät voimassa. Suhteet Venäjään jopa paranivat, vaikka Venäjä nähtiin taantumuksellisena. Iso-Britannia pyrki myös parantamaan suhteitaan Itävalta-Unkariin. Iso-Britannian ja Saksan välejä kriisi kiristi. Saksa nähtiin Iso-Britannian ulkoministeriössä Euroopan ainoana aggressiivisena suurvaltana ja uhkana voimatasapainolle.
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Basic, Elvedina. "Integration of Bosnian Immigrant Women in the US." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31544.

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The number of immigrants from different countries has increased in the United States in the past few years. Fargo/ Moorhead area was enriched with individuals and families from various post-war and undeveloped countries. Immigrants face challenges that are far more significant than adjusting to a new lifestyle, a new way of dressing, or a new climate. This paper will discuss the immigration process of the Bosnian women and how the resettlement affected their acculturation process, with a focus on their integration process into the new host community. Although the Bosnian population is a small and slowly growing population, it is becoming a significant part of US society. This paper should give more insight into understanding the assimilation and acculturation process of Bosnian women. Online oral histories of brave Bosnian women I have used, emphasize the importance of doing more research about immigrant integration in the new environment.
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Roubini, Sonia. "Education, Citizenship, Political Participation: Defining Variables for Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1345736678.

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Schwarz, Jeremiah William. "American defence policy and the Bosnian War 1991-1995." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648517.

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Borčak, Fedja. "A Children’s Literature? : Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fiction." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-58269.

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The past two decades of political and social disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina have given birth to literary counterreactions against hegemonic ways of imagining social life in the country. This thesis deals with a particular practice in BosnianHerzegovinian war and post-war literature, which uses infantile perspectives to critically address issues related to the socialist history of Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia, the war in the 1990s, and the socalled transitional post-war period. Drawing on an old Western literary tradition of using the child character to estrange conventional experiences of the world, the texts (by authors such as Miljenko Jergović, Nenad Veličković, Alma Lazarevska, Aleksandar Hemon, and Saša Stanišić) use the skewing and dislocating outlook associated with the infantile subject to expose and undermine perceivably problematic mechanisms in socialist, ethnonationalist, and Western liberal hegemonic discourses. In contrast to previous research on the topic, which has primarily focussed upon the narratological conditions for the infantile perspective, the focus here is on the subversive infantilisation of hegemonic discourse—that is, the very discursive act of representing and contesting dominant concepts, narratives, and representations. The texts are seen as transitional areas through which input from the social world passes and, in this process, is restructured and ultimately transformed into a configuration slightly or radically different from the original input. Theoretically inspired by discourse theory and ideas from New Historicism, the study isolates and investigates a set of techniques through which this reconfiguration occurs. Apart from discussing the use of the basic infantile perspective as such a technique, the study also considers how the notion of the infantile influences techniques of dichotomisation (the production of positional counterpoints), appropriation (the critical subsuming of dominant discourse), and blending (the mixing of dominant and childish imagery). The thesis also addresses the possible political implications of the strategy of subversive infantilisation. Here the approach is influenced by the political philosophy of Jacques Rancière, which enables an understanding of the aesthetic reconfiguration of how Bosnian social life is imagined as a way of constituting a new form of subjectivity that evades the excluding and oppressive framework of hegemonic discourse.
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Hart, Bryan Schrader Stephens John D. "The role of international actors in post-conflict Bosnian elections." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,658.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Political Science Chapel Hill." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Hasan, Unal. "Ottoman foreign policy during the Bosnian annexation crisis, 1908-1909." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.541651.

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Cozzi, Lorenzo <1997&gt. "The Wolves of Belgrade: Russian combatants in the Bosnian War." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21705.

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La tesi verterà sull’intervento di combattenti russi tra le fila dell’esercito della Repubblica Serba di Bosnia, nella guerra in Bosnia ed Erzegovina. Si analizzeranno il loro impiego operativo, i moventi ideologici e politici che li hanno spinti a combattere in una guerra lontana e per un paese diverso dal loro e le pratiche commemorative utilizzate sia nella repubblica serba di Bosnia che in Serbia per celebrare il loro coinvolgimento. In questo contesto si cercherà anche di dimostrare, sulla base delle fonti reperite nel corso di una ricerca sul campo in Bosnia, come questi combattenti si fossero arruolati come volontari e non come mercenari, cercando di dare risposta a una questione divisiva che permane nella discussione accademica e che non ha permesso di arrivare ad una definizione sufficientemente chiara del loro coinvolgimento nel conflitto bosniaco. Si cercherà inoltre di dimostrare come l’intervento, e la successiva glorificazione di questi volontari abbia portato a conseguenze considerevoli nell’approccio strategico e operativo russo nei conflitti combattuti nel primo ventennio del XXI secolo.
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Hein, August Howard. "British involvement in the Bosnian War : strategic culture and national interests /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA294995.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1994.
Thesis advisor(s): David S. Yost, D. Abenheim. "December 1994." Bibliography: p. 123-125. Also available online.
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Kopinak, Janice Katherine. "Bosnian refugees in Canada, trauma, resettlement and health in temporal perspective." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/MQ34028.pdf.

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Kelly, Lynnette. "Programme, policies, people : the interaction between Bosnian refugees and British society." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1149/.

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This thesis analyses the situation of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina that arrived in Britain as part of an organised programme. It represents a contribution towards the theoretical understanding of refugees, and develops and refines the theories of other authors. The author used field research methods based on techniques developed in ethnographic studies to generate empirical evidence on the social organisation of Bosnian refugees in Britain. Throughout the thesis it is argued that the situation of the refugees can only be understood through an examination of the influences affecting the refugees, before, during, and after their arrival in Britain. At every stage of the refugees' experience, control over the course of their lives has been taken away from the refugees. The war that took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina became constructed as an ethnic conflict, although there was no strong Muslim identification before the war. The programme removed options over country and place of residence, and created a measure of dependency. Longer term policies of community development, originally designed to meet the perceived needs of labour migrants, have been directed towards the refugees and imposed a model of organisation. Combined with temporary protected status, this has removed control from the refugees and prevented the formation of a new collective or individual positive life project. Refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina represent a new type of refugee in Joly's typology. This is a type of refugee that had no collective project in the country of origin, and also no collective project in the country of exile, and that is unable to make a decision on return because of the constraints around them.
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Herovic, Emina. "The Role of Acculturation on Bosnian Refugee Adult Child Mate Selection." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/9.

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Forced by the atrocities of war from their native country, Bosnian families came to United States seeking refuge and a new life. Immigrating to a new country, however, involves the process of acculturation which can dilute many native practices. Like many refugees that immigrated, Bosnians sought to adapt to the American way of life, while keeping their traditional ethnic customs, practices, and religion (Val & Iain-Walker, 2003). Many Bosnian refugee parents worked to keep the Bosnian practices prevalent in their first and second generation Bosnian American children. By doing so, Bosnian parents imbedded into their children the original customs, practices, and traditions of the Bosnian culture. Moreover, they raised their children to have great pride in their native country. Part of keeping the native culture alive, as an adult child of a refugee, involved marrying someone of the same ethnic and religious background (Inman, Howard, Beaumont, &Walker, 2007). Using Communication Acculturation Theory, this study examined the relationship between the degree of acculturation of Bosnian refugees in the United States and their preference and stress level in relational partner selection taking into consideration parental pressure and ethnic group community expectations. Results from this study find that acculturation is negatively correlated with the preference for a Bosnian mate but only the amount of interpersonal intimate communication the Bosnian members has with Bosnians and non-Bosnians is indicative of any mate selection stress experienced. Further, ethnic group community expectations and parental pressure are positively correlated with preference for a Bosnian mate, but only the expectations of the ethnic group and not pressure from parents was correlated with any stress the individual feels to find a Bosnian mate.
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Mendoza, Alan Laurence. "British relations with the USA during the Bosnian war, 1992-1995." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614671.

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Celebicic, Vanja. "'Waiting is hoping' : future and youth in a Bosnian border town." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/waiting-is-hoping-future-and-youth-in-a-bosnian-border-town(98f4dbe8-bef1-4517-88f3-80d4a9ad416e).html.

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This thesis challenges a widespread perception that young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina were ‘lethargic’ and that they ‘did not care’ for the collective or for the future. Based on one year of fieldwork in a small town called Bihać, located near to the border with Croatia, I show how young people rather than being ‘lethargic’, in fact, most of the time felt that they were in the wrong place and the wrong time. This resulted in a feeling that one’s ‘agentive capacity’ was limited, which made people feel stuck and not in control of the future; it made them feel that they were heading nowhere in particular. I illustrate how this sense of ‘stuckedness’ was manifest (e.g. through café routines), negotiated (e.g. through engagement with practices that have an immediate result), and the results it led to (e.g. various types of waiting). In order to better comprehend the experiences of contemporary youths in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I put them into ‘conversation’ with the narratives of older people, who were once at a similar ‘vital conjuncture’, making decisions about the future that would have meaningful effects on their lives. I show that in Bihać, within post-WWII Yugoslavia, the sense was that hope resided among the people. Despite many difficulties in that period, the general feeling was that things were in the ‘right’ proportion and that one, more or less, knew what one could get and expect from the state and its institutions. Within contemporary Bihać, the sense was that the ability to know was reduced to the ability to hope, but that hope itself was presently felt to be outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s borders. Instead, everyday lives were saturated with what I call institutionalized unpredictability. This had debilitating effects on people, both in practical and in moral terms, and has inevitably shaped how young people, coming of age in present day Bosnia and Herzegovina, experienced their location, and consequently their sense of ‘agentive capacity’ and how they aspired. I argue that young people were neither alienated nor disinterested in the future. Rather, while dealing with too much unpredictability and at the same time undesirable predictability, a condition that both was and was not of their own making, they were actively and ‘resourcefully’ (Jeffrey 2011: 245) living their present routines. In this thesis I show how young people engaged with the immediate, near and distant future on both the collective and individual level. Moreover, I illustrate how they partially created, partially responded to and partially ignored Bihać and Bosnia and Herzegovina as places in space and time as they engaged with their surroundings.
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Jokelainen, I. (Ilkka). "”Balkanilla mikään ei ole yksinkertaista”:rauhanneuvottelija David Owenin näkemyksiä Bosnian sodasta." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201906042347.

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Tiivistelmä. Tutkimus käsittelee rauhanneuvottelija David Owenin näkemyksiä Bosnian sodasta tämän toimikaudella 1992–1995. Päälähteenä kirjalle toimii Owenin vuonna 1995 kirjoittama muistelmateos Balkan Odyssey. Metodina tutkimuksessa käytetään lähilukua. Sodan alussa Owen näkee serbit hyökkääjinä, ja kannattaa voimakkaasti länsivaltojen sotilaallista valtaantuloa. Nopeasti Owen kuitenkin omaksuu kotimaassaan Britanniassa vallalla olevan käsityksen, jonka mukaan kyseessä on sisällissota jonka kaikki osapuolet ovat moraalisesti likipitäen samalla viivalla. Owen pyrki neuvottelemaan rauhaa ensin liittovaltiopohjalta, mutta myöhemmin Bosnian pilkkomiseen nojaavien alotteiden kautta. Owen vaikuttaa korostavan Bosnian muslimien sotarikoksia tasapäistääkseen heidät serbiosapuolen kanssa. Aiemmassa tutkimuskirjallisuudessa Owenia on kritisoitu muun muassa siitä, ettei tämä ymmärtänyt serbien aloittaman sodan luonnetta; rauhanneuvottelut olivat turhia, kun sisällissodan sijaan kyseessä oli Slobodan Milosevicin Serbian projekti suur-Serbian luomiseksi.
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Coward, Martin. "Urbicide and the question of community in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1759.

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This thesis seeks to answer the question of the meaning of the destruction of the urban environment in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The inquiry begins with the destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This event constitutes an exemplary instance of the destruction of urban environments. The destruction of the Old Bridge is not, however, an isolated event: urban destruction was widespread during the Bosnian war. It is argued that a clue to the meaning of this destruction lies in the fact that it is shared spaces that are destroyed. The `logics' of urban destruction are then considered. Such destruction cannot be properly Accounted for by either the traditional notion of military necessity or the regimes established to protect cultural heritage. Rather, it is argued that the destruction of urban environment comprises `urbicide'. Urbicide is defined as the destruction of that which characterises the urban: heterogeneityI.t is argued that destroying buildings represents the destruction of the conditions of possibility of heterogeneity. The thesis then addresses the relation between shared spatiality and heterogeneity. Drawing on Heidegger's account of Being-in-the-world, it is argued that existence is both spatial and shared. The fundamental sharing of existential spatiality constitutes existence as a heterogeneous Being-with-others. The Heideggerian notion of Mitsein (Being-with) is proposed as an initial account of the nature of this heterogeneity. This account of Mitsein is developed through a consideration of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. In particular the implication of Being in community is noted. An account is given of the politics of Being-with at stake in urbicide. In conclusion it is argued that urbicide comprises an ethno-nationalist attempt to cover over the Heterogeneous nature of existence. The proper starting point for a response to ethno-nationalist violence must be a recognition of the heterogeneity and community at stake in urbicide.
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Aščerič, Ines. "The role of dervish orders in the Islamisation process in Bosnia and the formation of Bosnian Muslim society in the 15th and 16th centuries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413013.

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Celik, Elcin. "Bosnian Refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky: Refugee Resettlement and Community Based Research." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1190.

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To understand the reasons for the increase in recent years of the Bosnian population in Bowling Green, Kentucky and their adaptation problems as refugees in their host country, this study focused upon the Bosnian community in Bowling Green and addressed what the role of their challenges is in the shaping of refugees’ new life in their host country. Extensive literature review helped to emerge that for an understanding of the situation of the refugees, their interaction in the host country is more meaningful topic for research. This study employed qualitative research methods, drawing from existing empirical studies addressing resettlement in the context of the informants’ wartime experiences. Initially, the researcher approached patrons at Bosnian restaurants and worshipers at local mosques to find Bosnian people. Snowball sampling used to identify Bosnian refugees living in the Bowling Green community. Twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted for needs assessment and issue identification. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed in an attempt to understand the difficulties of adaptation among Bosnian refugees living in Bowling Green. A qualitative case study approach was chosen because it was the most effective way to gain knowledge of refugees’ experiences and perceptions in the context of the societies in which they resettled. Findings revealed that interviewed group struggled with mostly language and employment challenges to integration. Social support was provided through organizations that included Americans aided integration and the families resettled before as they provided significant support is directing resettlement. Banki’s (2004) and Jacobsen’s (2001) indicators of refugee integration were used to in order to determine to the extent to which this sample of Bosnian refugees are integrated into their host county.
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Li, Darryl Chi-Yee. "Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the U.S. World Order." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10627.

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This dissertation uses the experiences of Arab Islamist fighters in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to rethink prevailing notions of world order. These actors are frequently glossed as “foreign fighters”: rootless, unaccountable extremists attempting to impose rigid forms of Islam on local “moderate” Muslim populations, be it in BiH, Afghanistan, Chechnya, or other sites of conflict with non-Muslim powers. By illuminating some of the many diasporic and imperial circuits linking BiH with other parts of the world, this dissertation provides a richer historical and sociological context in which transnational activist movements no longer seem so aberrational. This study argues that the mobilization to join the “jihad” alongside Bosnian Muslims can be usefully understood as a universalist project: an attempt to incarnate a worldwide Muslim community (umma) theoretically open to all of humanity, in which activists struggle through the experience of racial, cultural, and doctrinal difference vis-à-vis Bosnian and other Muslims. This approach opens up two broad avenues of inquiry. First, it allows an analysis of how Muslims of different backgrounds interacted in contexts of fighting, intermarriage, and doctrinal disputation. Second, it helps analytically situate the jihad in relation to other forms of armed intervention also acting in the name of humanity, most importantly UN peacekeeping and the U.S.-led “Global War on Terror.” This study is based on approximately 12 months of fieldwork in BiH between 2006 and 2012, mostly in Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla, and Bugojno. Open-ended life-history interviews were conducted in Arabic and English with Arab residents of BiH and their Bosnian comrades, kin, and critics. Additional interviews took place in Yemen, France, and Egypt. The study also draws extensively on archival materials culled from various sources, including Bosnian army and intelligence documents gathered by the UN war crimes tribunal, U.S. State Department cables disclosed by Wikileaks, and extensive printed and online materials by participants in and supporters of the jihad written in Arabic, the language formerly known as Serbo-Croatian, and Urdu.
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Karic, Dzenita. "Multiple paths to the holy : continuity and change in Bosnian Hajj literature." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2018. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30278/.

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Kabashi, Festina. "News Framing on Bosnian Conflict : Exploring the Peace and War Journalism Perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-155576.

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This thesis involves an analysis based on the theory of peace and war journalism to show how these theories express themselves in a conflict area. By taking two major media outlets during the war in Bosnia – Borba (Struggle) and Open Broadcast Network (OBN) – as case study this thesis will explore the way war and peace journalism and the Galtung dichotomy function in practice. In order to better understand the substance of peace journalism, a qualitative content analysis of articles and reports was conducted. The local newspapers and TV broadcasts in the beginning of the war displayed a powerful war journalism framing whereas toward the end of the conflict the coverage of OBN – established with the assistance of international community – exposes a more hopeful peace journalism framing. The most outstanding peace journalism signs are: an unbiased approach, all-parties coverage, and avoidance of dehumanizing language. The war journalism frame is driven by a present focus orientation, a separation of good and evil and an elite angle. The literature on peace and war journalism puts forward the fact that the current media are a key concern to the media and public experts, combatants and contain a perceptive impact on shifting the focus to the conflict field. By using Galtung’s (1998) peace and war journalism frames indicators, Borba and OBN were tested to help see the difference between war and peace journalism in practice. Findings suggest that a third possibility exist, considering that both OBN and Borba have often shown merely objective-reporting signs without making themselves a good fit to Galtung’s dichotomous model of peace journalism. The belief that there is a clear distinction between peace and war journalism is theoretically derived, which was proved in the Bosnian case where the lines are blurred.
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Graham, Florence. "Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2e237b05-c803-4278-a93a-ccc519ea4eac.

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This dissertation analyses when, how and why Turkish loanwords became incorporated into Bosnian and Bulgarian, as seen in the writings of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscans. I analyse Bosnian works (religious and secular) by Matija Divkovic, Ivan Bandulavic, Pavo Posilovic Mošunjanin, Mihovil Radnic, Stjepan Margitic Markovac, Lovro Braculjevic, Filip Lastric, Nikola Marcinkušic Lašvanin, Marko Dobretic, Bono Benic, and Grgo Ilijic-Varešanin. As a Bulgarian counterpart, I analyse three eighteenth-century Bulgarian Franciscan manuscripts and the works of Petar Bogdan Bakšic and Filip Stanislavov. The dissertation consists of eight chapters. The first chapter gives background information on Turkish presence in Bosnia and Bulgaria, the history of the Franciscans in Bosnia and Bulgaria, short biographies of each of the writers whose works are analysed, phonology and orthography. The second chapter focuses on the complications regarding establishing earliest attestations for turkisms in Bosnian and Bulgarian. The third chapter discusses the nominal morphology of turkisms in Bosnian and Bulgarian. This chapter analyses why turkisms developed the gender that they did when borrowed from a language that does not have gender as a category. Chapter four addresses the verbal morphology of turkisms in Bosnian and Bulgarian. Verbal prefixes are discussed in detail, as are Turkish voiced suffixes in Bulgarian. The fifth chapter analyses adjectives and adverbs, with focus on gender and number agreement. The sixth chapter addresses the use of Turkish conjunctions. The seventh chapter looks at the motivation, semantics and setting of turkisms in Bosnian and Bulgarian. The conclusion addresses how morphology, semantics, motivation and setting of turkisms relate to their chronology in Bosnian and Bulgarian and how these areas differ from language to language.
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Miller, Brenna Caroline. "Between Faith and Nation: Defining Bosnian Muslims in Tito's Yugoslavia, 1945-1980." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532003889562038.

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Shoemaker, Melissa K. "A house divided evolution of EU asylum policy after the Bosnian war /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4508.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 279. Thesis director: Janine Wedel. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 10, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-278). Also issued in print.
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." Thesis, full-text, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/2006/.

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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process. Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community. The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2. The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony. Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." full-text, 2009. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2006/1/Dzavid_Haveric.pdf.

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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process. Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community. The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2. The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony. Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Andjelic, Neven. "Bosnia-Herzegovina : politics at the end of Yugoslavia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311330.

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Mikhos, Alexia Marie-Christine. "United Nations conflict resolution with special reference to the Bosnian and Somali wars." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393528.

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Pennington, James J. "The Synchrony and Diachrony of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Adjectival Long-form Allomorphy (ALFA)." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293639004.

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Bransteter, Irina. "Bosnian Refugees' Understanding of Their Health and Well-Being in A U.S. Context." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1470864306.

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Brkovic, Carna. "Navigating rules and wills : healthcare and social protection in a Bosnian border town." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/navigating-rules-and-wills-healthcare-and-social-protection-in-a-bosnian-border-town(c9bb13f8-5ecd-4dfc-92b2-63219f647346).html.

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This thesis follows a variety of practices in the field of social and health protection in Bijeljina, a border town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I completed a year of fieldwork during 2009 and 2010. I explored how people gained access to public services and provisions, and also considered how they pursued social and healthcare protection beyond state-funded institutions. Throughout the thesis, I treat these practices as a form of navigation through what I refer to as social and political space. I argue that navigating one‘s way through the fields of social and health protection in Bijeljina encompassed the pursuit of personalised relations as well as attempts to fit into institutionalised rules and categories. Instead of assuming what the proper 'state‘ roles were, and consequently approaching the ethnographic material in terms of how well it fits in to a certain model, I explore in what way the boundary between the 'state‘ and 'that which is not the state‘ was constituted through these practices of navigation. In several examples I demonstrate that the boundary between domains was movable and not very neat. These examples include an analysis of an organisation which was sometimes more like an NGO and sometimes more like a state-run centre for children with developmental needs; the way in which the state border was sometimes irrelevant, and at other times very important; the way in which the pursuit of various kinds of personalised relations was hard to separate from the pursuit of institutionalised ones; a charity practice (humanitarne akcije) which consisted of raising money for a single person‘s health protection from numerous charitable donors – municipalities, high school pupils, neighbours, and pop singers being counted among them. I also argue that this mode of navigating one‘s way through social and health protection, or this way of reconstituting the boundary between the 'state‘ and 'that which is not the state‘, enabled certain people to build up a very personalised mode of power which also worked through various institutions. Ethnographically situating this argument in the discussion of the social position and the life of one woman politician in Bijeljina, I suggest that a combination of the concepts of biopolitics and the Melanesian concept of 'Big Man‘ is useful for thinking about this personalised modality of power which works through institutions.
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Skjelsbæk, Inger. "Voicing Silence : A Political Psychological Analysis of the Aftermath of the Bosnian War Rapes." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1137.

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Det viktigste målet med dette doktorgradsprsojektet har vært å undersøke hvordan individuelle ofre og deres nærmeste lever med voldtektserfaringene fra krigen i Bosnia. Forsker ved Institutt for Fredsforskning (PRIO), Inger Skjelsbæk, har gjort feltintervjuer i Bosnia med helsearbeidere, fokusgrupper, folk som jobber i frivillige organisasjoner og kvinner som ble utsatt for krigsvoldtekter for å kunne kartlegge ettereffekten av disse voldshandlingene. Gjennom dette arbeidet konstaterer hun at voldtektene var et effektivt krigsvåpen under krigen, men at konsekvensene av disse handlingene etter krigens slutt kanskje ikke er slik overgriperne hadde sett for seg. Den enrome oppmerksomheten krigsvioldtektene fikk både under og etter krigen gjorde at disse voldshandlingene fikk en politisk betydning og dermed ble ansett som et politisk anliggende for både nasjonale og internasjonale hjelpearbeidere. Denne måten å forstå voldtekt i krig er nytt i historisk sammenheng og fikk betydning for hvordan helseabridere jobber med kvinner utsatt for krigsvoldtekter, hvordan vanlige folk i Bosnia snakker om disse kvinnene og ikke minst hvordan kvinner utsatt for disse voltektene ser på seg selv og sine erfaringer. Selv om mange kvinner som har opplevd disse voldtektene lever i det skjulte med sine erfaringer, er det også mange som får støtte av sine familier og sine menn og som ønsker å vitne i nasjonale og internasjonale rettsinstanser. I forhold til hva vi kjenner til om voldtekt i krig og dets konsekvenser i andre konflikter, er situasjonen for de Bosniske kvinnene unik og viser at det å betrakte voldtekt i krig som et politisk anliggende har konsekvenser på samfunns- og individ nivå.


The major aim of this doctoral project has been to investigate how the Bosnian war rapes affect individual victims and their communities after the war has ended. In order to answer this question, researcher Inger Skjelsbæk at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) has traveled to Bosnia to do interviews with health workers, people who work in volunteer organizations, rape-victims and focus groups. What she has found through this work is that rape is indeed an effective weapon of war, but it may not have the consequences the perpetrators might have anticipated. The political significance of the rapes affected both how people talked about the rapes and how the individual war-rape sufferers perceived their experiences. For individual war-rape sufferers the harm and trauma inflicted is indisputable, but the ways in which these individuals live with their war-rape experiences varied. The major reason for this variation is that the war-rapes attracted enormous attention both within Bosnia and from the outside world. This attention brought a new thinking about women´s roles in society to Bosnia which made it possible for women to talk about rape in ways that had not been possible before the war. While it is true that the war-rape experiences have rendered many women silent and ostracized by their families, there is at the same time a great number of women who have support from their families, and who want to testify before international and national courts to see their perpetrators punished. Compared to what we know about rape in previous wars this is a significant change.

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Trako, Redzo. "The role of Bogomilism in the creation of Bosnian identity in the Middle Ages." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486224.

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The subject of this thesis is the role of Byzantine-Bulgarian Bogomilism in the creation of Bosnian identity in the Middle Ages. The Bosnian primary sources and material culture - church architecture, stone monuments and ecclesiastic manuscripts - explored in this thesis do not support the claim that Bosnian identity in the Middle Ages was shaped by Bogomils. The thesis analyses the geo-political development of medieval Bosnia, the development of the Church of Bosnia, the sources about church-state relationship, the archaeological remains of about 40 excavated church building foundations; 22 stone 'thrones', some 70,000 standing stones and about 30 ecclesiastical manuscripts. Contrary to extant scholarship, on the basis of this research, no trace of Bogomilism could be found. The thesis concludes that Bosnian identity dtIr4lg the Middle Ages was formed, not through Bogomilism, but rather as an extension of the geography and history of the region situated on the fault line between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Thus, if the question is 'Did medieval Bosnian identity manifest itself through Bogomilism?' the answer has to be no.
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Bozic, Gordana. "The Limits of “Ethnic War”: Intra-Group Violence and Resistance During the Bosnian War." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37775.

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The Bosnian war was not a purely “ethnic conflict,” as both in-group members and out-group members were sacrificed for the higher political objective, namely, ethnic homogenization of divided Bosnian territories. In particular, I argue the sacrifice of in-group members, especially those who lived on the out-territory, was integral to the violence directed against out-group members. The process of resettlement of the ethnic kin was just as important as the expulsion of the ethnic “other” for re-creating a new ethnic and political balance in select strategic areas. Furthermore, the practice of the appropriation of existing and the creation of new parallel state structures were the main mechanisms of the process of the sacrifice of in-group members from the out-territory. In turn, nationalist narratives were constructed not only to justify those new structures, but also to portray ethnic minorities as potentially dangerous and threatening. In order to complete ethnic homogenization, Bosnian nationalists directly targeted the private household, expelling Bosnians from their homes and appropriating and destroying their private property. I argue that violence against the household rendered the private sphere political. In the second part of the thesis, I reflect on actions and words of ordinary Bosnians, both in-group and out-group members, who resisted violence and helped each other during the war. In particular, I argue that although the lack of basic needs brought Bosnians of different ethnicities together, a long-term result of this necessity-driven action was political: the restoration of their citizenship and the preservation of their community at the local level for after the war.
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O'Shea, Molly. "America's hidden meaning of welcome : a Bosnian experience of two English language learner programs /." ProQuest subscription required:, 2000. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990270521&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Yoshitome, Kota. "The Western order under quasi-multilateralism : the Bosnian conflict and the West 1992-1995." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/436/.

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Ths thesis presents an interpretation of the forniation process of the post-Cold War international order with special reference to the Western debate regarding use of coercive power in the Bosnian conflict of 1992-1995. As the role of multilateralism and the authority of the UN were the most contentious issues of the debate, this thesis will provide a critical resource for comprehending the origin and the nature of 'American unflateralism',and its relationship with other Western allies. It will also be a useful tool in predicting future outcomes. This research will apply the concept of 'Quasi-multflater-alism' to analyse the relationship between the US and other Western states during the Bosnian conflict. It is held that the US justified its policies in the name of collective action without adhering to the outcomes of genuine multilateral consultation with its allies. However, this inevitably undermined th e quality of justice that the West alleged to promote. More specifically, this work will analyse the fact that there was a clear tension between Western states who sought to legitimize their role in international order based on shared values,and thus it will argue that the content of 'Western Value' was a product of power politics. Accordingly, this research will conclude that America's interpretation of justice was used as a means to project its own national interest under the logic of Quasi-multilateralism. This thesis will challenge the Liberal view of the present world order that Western states have common interests in promoting democracy and market economies across the globe and implementation of those Western values will make the world safer and fairer.
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Goldin, Stephen. "Living in the present with the past : mental health of Bosnian refugee children in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1896.

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The negative impact of war on child mental health has been repeatedly documented. Still, the majority of children exposed to ethnic and political violence show no signs of clinical disorder. In Western countries of exile, these findings have prompted a variety of attempts to evaluate refugee children, in the hope of identifying and offering support to those children “at risk”. This study critically examines one such attempt. The aims are fourfold: 1. to describe the range and pattern of child trauma-stress exposure and mental health reactions as captured on clinician semi-structured interview; 2. to critically compare clinician assessment with independent parent, child and teacher reports; 3. to identify factors of potential risk or protective import for child mental health; 4. to draw clinical implications: from whom and by what means can children at risk be reasonably identified? The target of our study was the entire population of Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian speaking child refugee families assigned to Umeå and surrounding municipalities during 1994-95. Fifty families, containing 90 children aged one month to 20 years, were included in the study. Assessment occurred in two phases. First, a semi-structured interview was conducted that inquired broadly as to the child’s family background, trauma-stress exposure, emotional-behavioral problems, patterns of family functioning, and future hopes. Second, standardized self-report questionnaires were administered, separately to parent and child, to provide alternative appraisal of the child’s war exposure, mental health symptoms, coping strategies, and social network. Teacher evaluation of child cognitive-social functioning as well as emotional-behavioral problems was also obtained. Clinician semi-structured interview revealed the child’s pre-war period as preponderantly good, and provided richly detailed narratives of child exposure during war and resettlement that clustered into a limited number of type-stories. Independent parent assessment captured the same broad strokes of child war exposure; but both approaches – fixed questionnaire and semi-structured interview – showed specific areas of blindness. Teenage self-report offered a disparate but equally rich account of war exposure, while that of primary school child was significantly less detailed. Nearly half of the study children (48%) were identified on clinician interview with one or more mental health problem “demanding further attention”. Depressiveness was the single most prevalent symptom (31%), followed by posttraumatic reactions (23%) and anxiety-regressiveness (15%). Independent symptom appraisal by parent and primary school child was largely concordant with that of clinician, while teenagers made similar assessment as to who was in distress, but defined the nature of that distress differently. Teacher report stood apart, identifying fewer inward emotional problems and asserting the cognitive-social competence of the vast majority of study children. Trauma-stress exposure during both war and resettlement presented as an unequivocal risk to mental health, but accounted for only part of outcome variance. Additional factors of strong import related broadly to “living in the present”. Parent impairment of daily routines, child dissatisfaction with school and an ongoing quarrelsome relationship presented as risk factors. Protection was associated with parent maintenance of a warm family climate and of concrete physical-emotional caring, child social ties to physically present others, including teacher; and above all, a family sense of hope for the future. Results support the general robustness of our semi-structured approach. Exploring the child’s present well-being in narrative relation to past and future, our assessment captured and gave meaning to the complexity of child exposure and behavior. At the same time, independent parent and child appraisals provided an additional richness to the retelling and evaluation of child experience. Particularly the apartness of teacher report underscores the need to incorporate an outside-world vantage point in the process of risk assessment.
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Manojlovic, Violeta. "Defense of national interest and sovereignty, Serbian government policy in the Bosnian crisis, 1906-1909." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24203.pdf.

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Moore, Caitlin M. "Third party intervention in humanitarian conflict : why the U. S. intervened in the Bosnian War /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/237.pdf.

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Xhudo, Gazmen. "A critique of United States policy with special reference to Albania and the Bosnian crisis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2647.

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This study demonstrates that, in the post Cold War era, US leadership becomes more crucial than ever. Through the adoption of a classical approach; a thorough case study of diplomatic efforts vis-a-vis Albania coupled with America's response to the crisis in Bosnia, highlights the weakness of US policy in the former and its outright failure in the case of the latter. Historical analysis demonstrates that recent violent nationalism in the Balkans did not suddenly erupt into violence. Instead, it remains dormant until such time that power vacuums, the result of power politics, are created. Indeed, the work seeks to show the history of Western, especially US, policy failure and short-sightedness in the region and how past trends have invoked present failures and crises which have yet to be remedied. The examination of US relations with Albania, shows that much more is required in America's efforts to ensure that democracy succeeds in Albania, and that a deeper analysis demonstrates the need for greater mutual understanding between the US and Albania. The Bosnian crisis is an example of American and Western failure which should not be repeated elsewhere in the region. By reviewing the tenets of American foreign policy, the study seeks to shed light upon the theories which have dominated current debate. The aim of such a review is to examine the trend, or trends, which have surfaced from the foreign policy debate and, specifically, whether or not these indicate the direction American foreign policy towards the region should be taking in the post- Cold War era.
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Cox, Marcus. "The making of a Bosnian State : international law and the authority of the international community." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272101.

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Smith, Nina Sophie Overney. "Foreigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerland." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42775.

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In modern societies foreigners are implicated in the resolution of the problem of state sovereignty. This paper clarifies how foreign groups can be used by the state to reconstitute the nation in such a way that vulnerabilities are mended. Michel Foucaultâ s racism and bio-politics are used as conceptual tools to gain insight on how the perpetually open question of who belongs and who does not belong to the population might be settled. This theoretical problem is illustrated with the help of case studies on two significant â crisis momentsâ for the Swiss state: the arrival of the Hungarian refugees in the late 1950s and the arrival of the Bosnian refugees in the early to mid 1990s.
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