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III. After the War: The Responsibility and Competence of Academics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2020

Zorica Maros
Zorica Maros*
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Catholic Theological Faculty
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Twenty-five years after the end of the war, the political and social scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still characterized by the mentality of the 1990s. In recent months, we have witnessed political rhetoric that is very much reminiscent of the time before, at the beginning, and during the war. In the first part of this essay, I will try to present some of the reasons for this situation. In the second part, I will point out the responsibility of intellectuals for such a condition. In this concluding section, I will discuss how we have used our academic resources in an attempt to change the situation and strengthen social responsibility.

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Theological Roundtable
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Horizons , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , June 2020 , pp. 90 - 99
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Copyright © College Theology Society, 2020

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30 Cf. Samir Huseinović, “Egzodus iz Bosne i Hercegovine,” https://www.dw.com/hr/egzodus-iz-bosne-i-hercegovine/a-49490471.

31 For example, presidency member Milorad Dodik recently (October 18, 2019) stated that the breakup of BH was inevitable and that the only way out was to create three mini-states, namely the internal division advocated by nationalist parties in the run-up to the war in the 1990s, which was then the goal of ethical cleansing. Cf. HINA, “Dodik: BH se raspada, trebaju se uspostaviti tri nove države,” https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/dodik-bih-se-raspada-trebaju-se-uspostaviti-tri-nove-drzave/2124960.aspx.

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38 Cf. Jaspers, Pitanje krivice, 26–29. This paragraph is taken from Maros, “The Dayton Peace Agreement: A Material and Moral Degradation of Humanity,” 34.

39 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, November 24, 2013, no. 220, http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html.

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44 Prcela, Bogozaborav, 25.

45 Prcela, Bogozaborav, 17.

46 More about the summer school can be seen at https://kbf.unsa.ba/ljetna-skola-summer-school.

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