2012 SEIP 7 contents

Southeast European Integration Perspectives Edited by Wolfgang Petritsch,

former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Special Envoy of the EU for Kosovo

Christophe Solioz,

Secretary-General of the Center for European Integration Strategies

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Bojan Bilić | Vesna Janković (Eds.)

Resisting the Evil [Post-]Yugoslav Anti-War Contention

The Authors: Bojan Aleksov | Bojan Bilić | Milica Dragojević | Marko Hren | Vesna Janković | Biljana Kašić | Gëzim Krasniqi | Larisa Kurtović | Lepa Mlađenović | Srđa Pavlović | Mojca Planšak | Ljubica Spaskovska | Nebojša Šavija-Valha | Zala Volčič

Nomos

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Contents

Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms

7 9 11

Wolfgang Petritsch and Christophe Solioz Europeanisation at the Crossroads: A Foreword

17

Bojan Bilić and Vesna Janković Recovering (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Contention: A Zagreb Walk through Stories, Analyses and Activisms

25

Ljubica Spaskovska Landscapes of Resistance, Hope and Loss: Yugoslav Supra-Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism

37

Marko Hren The Slovenian Peace Movement: An Insider’s Account

63

Gëzim Krasniqi “For Democracy — Against Violence”: A Kosovar Alternative

83

Bojan Aleksov Resisting the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia: Towards an Autoethnography

105

Lepa Mlađenović Notes of a Feminist Lesbian in Anti-War Initiatives

127

Srđa Pavlović and Milica Dragojević Peaceniks and Warmongers: Anti-War Activism in Montenegro, 1989–1995

137

Bojan Bilić Islands of Print Media Resistance: ARKzin and Republika

159

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Zala Volčič and Mojca Planšak Radio Stations as Spaces for Political Alternatives during the Yugoslav Wars

175

Larisa Kurtović The Paradoxes of Wartime “Freedom”: Alternative Culture during the Siege of Sarajevo

197

Vesna Janković International Peace Activists in the Former Yugoslavia: A Sociological Vignette on Transnational Agency

225

Nebojša Šavija-Valha Beyond Peacebuilding Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina

243

Biljana Kašić The Politicality of Anti-War Acting

263

Selected Bibliography

279

Contributors

285