Reconciliation and implacability : Narratives of survivors from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• This article analyzes retold experiences of 27 survivors from the 90’s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One aim of the article is analyzing markers for reconciliation and implacability, the second is describing conditions for reconciliation which are actualized in those stories. Interactive dynamics which prevailed during the war associate post-war reconciliation with the war time. These stories of reconciliation, implacability and conditions for reconciliation, are not created in relation to the war as a whole only but also in relation to one’s own and other’s personal actions during the war. These stories on reconciliation become a forum for confrontation between us and them – not least through dissociation from others war actions. In the interviewees stories implacability is predominant however reconciliation is said to be possible if certain conditions are met. These conditions are, among others, justice for war victims, that the perpetrators’ recognize their crimes and display strong emotions (for example remorse and shame).

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

remorse

shame

condition for reconciliation

narrative

emotions

reconciliation

implacability

sociology

sociologi

Samhällsvetenskap

Social Sciences

Freds- och utvecklingsstudier

Peace and Development Studies

Kriminologi

Criminology

Socialpsykologi

Social Psychology

Socialt arbete

Social Work

Sociology

Sociologi

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