Reconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts, Denisa Kostovicova ...asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities.Reconciliation by Stealth shifts our attention from what people say about war crimes, to how they deliberate past wrongs. Bringing together theories of democratic deliberation and peacebuilding, Kostovicova demonstrates how people from opposing ethnic groups reconcile through reasoned, respectful, and empathetic deliberation about a difficult legacy. She finds that expression of ethnic difference plays a role in good-quality deliberation across ethnic lines, while revealed intraethnic divisions help deliberators expand moral horizons previously narrowed by conflict. In the process, people forge bonds of solidarity and offset divisive identity politics that bears upon their deliberations. Reconciliation by Stealth shows us the importance of theoretical and methodological innovation in capturing how transitional justice can promote reconciliation, and points to the untapped potential of deliberative problem-solving to repair relationships fractured by conflict.
Hybrid rockets have distinct advantages over their pure solid or liquid propellant counterparts, and their performance can be improved by inclusion of metal additives. Several metallic additives ...(micro-Al, micro-Ti, micro-Mg, micro-Zr, nano-Al, nano-B, and Mg-coated nano-B) were selected as potential candidates for hybrid rocket applications and characterized by applicable microscopy techniques. The regression rates and combustion efficiencies of plain HTPB and HTPB loaded with each additive at various concentrations (10%, 20%, and 30% by mass) burning in GOX were evaluated at moderate oxidizer mass fluxes (10-150 kg/m
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-s) and pressures (
0.86 MPa, 125 psia). In general, the inclusion of any of the metallic additives led to a reduction in the regression rate and did not significantly change the combustion efficiency. The only exceptions were fuel formulations containing micro-Zr, which yielded a moderate (10-20%) increase in the regression rate at a concentration of 10%. The observed trends were more prevalent at higher oxidizer mass fluxes and higher additive loadings. The reductions in regression rate were attributed to heat transfer blocking effects derived from accumulation of additive particles on the fuel surface layer. These phenomena were especially prevalent in highly loaded fuel formulations containing the nano-additives that exhibited unstable combustion and periodic surface-layer shedding. Zirconium appears to be the best metallic additive available since it can yield the highest theoretical density-specific impulse under the lowest O/F operation ratio without resulting in decrements to overall performance. Notably, combustion efficiency data for all fuel formulations were well correlated to the combustion residence time, and high combustion efficiencies (>95%) were achievable when a satisfactory residence time (~75 ms) was realized.
Velika Srbija kolokvijalan je naziv za nacionalistički i iredentistički projekt dijela srpske inteligencije koji je nastao početkom devetnaestoga stoljeća. Međutim velikosrpski projekt datira još od ...1557. g., odnosno nakon ponovne uspostave Pećke patrijaršije. Tada je pravoslavni klir (svećenstvo) počeo promicati ideju po-novne uspostave Dušanovoga Carstva koje se prostiralo na području današnjih devet suverenih država.
Oživotvorenje velikosrpskoga projekta, odnosno homogenizacija velikosrpskih krugova ponovno je počela još za vrijeme Titova života, a dinamizirala se poslije njegove smrti otvaranjem srpskoga pitanja na Kosovu. Dinamiziranje procesa za primarni cilj nije imalo rješavanje kosovskoga pitanja, već ponovnu homogenizaciju i mobilizaciju srpskoga puka na području cijeloga SFRJ-a.
U cilju operacionalizacije velikosrpskoga projekta najznačajniji čimbenik bila je Jugoslavenska narodna armija (JNA), ona je trebala biti jamac. Stoga su početkom 80-ih godina prošloga stoljeća počeli sa sustavnom srbizacijom zapovjednoga kadra, gdje su Srbi i Crnogorci zauzeli dominantnu ulogu. JNA je 1990./91. g. bio najznačajniji čimbenik pri naoružavanju pobunjenih Srba.
Autori u ovome radu napravili su analizu vojnih efektiva JNA-a na ozemlju Đakovačko-osječke nadbiskupije koji su aktivno stavljeni u funkciju dezintegracije Republike Hrvatske. Naime takva analiza za to područje nije sustavno napravljena. Pri izradi kori-stili su se reduciranim pisanim izvorima i osobnim iskustvom u obrani suvereniteta i teritorijalnoga integriteta Republike Hrvatske na tome području.
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues ...confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.
Brod (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Slavonski Brod (Republic of Croatia) towns were positioned in two different federal republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) divided ...by the Sava River as its natural boundary. They essentially represented almost a single, unified city, with a multi-ethnic structure of the population, and high production industrial capacity. The authors of this article use the conceptual model of double towns developed by Buursink, and Dębicki and Tamáska, applying it to the case of the above-mentioned towns. This article analyzes the current status of the towns in terms of the impact of war attrocities on their economic, cultural, urban and demographic resources and mutual cooperation. Emphasis is placed on the permanent damage caused by ethnic separation between these cities as well as the consequences arising from the division of industrial capacities, which determined the further development of these towns, their economic potential and urban sprawl, as well as the quality of life of the population. This research is based on case study methodology, with a focus on secondary data analysis. The results of the research show that the formation of new states and wars in the former SFRJ caused the division of economic and human capital, with severe consequences. The postsocialist transition and badly conducted privatization, together with the new national borders and ethnic separation, caused a division between these towns that resulted in a decrease in their mutual cultural and economic cooperation. However, a more favourable environment for life and development has been noted in Slavonski Brod (Republic of Croatia), which during the pre-war period had more economic and institutional capacity, as well as a larger population. Some of these advantages have become more important with the entry of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union, which turned out to be an additional factor of separation between these former double towns. Within this context, the authors identify patterns related to the revitalization of certain social ties that existed before the division.
Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in ...presenting the photographs from an aesthetic perspective, but in the history of their use and function within one of the biggest anti-fascist movements in Europe during the Second World War.
Niz studija koje tragaju za razlozima raspada Socijalističke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije, te razloge pronalaze u etničkim, ekonomskim, političkim ili teritorijalnim trendovima toga razdoblja, i ...unutar I izvan same SFRJ. Mnoge od tih studija kombiniraju različite razloge i gradiraju ih na specifične načine. Bez obzira na razloge raspada ove državne tvorevine, granice i etnički odnosi imali su velik utjecaj na tijek raspada i događaje koji su mu prethodili. Krenemo li od geografskog faktora u pogledu teritorijalnih pretenzija i promjena granice; ili pak; demografskog faktora, etničke i nacionalne pripadnosti stanovništva ove zajednice, dobivamo šaroliku sliku, koju je neophodno objasniti prije bilo koje od analiza događaja na ovom prostoru devedesetih godina prošlog stoljeća. Rad istražuje problematiku granica (između država nastalih raspadom) bivše Jugoslavije, u njihovoj geografskoj, etničkoj i povijesnoj komponenti, kao jedan od sastavnih dijelova problematike raspada SFRJ, te značaj etničkih odnosa u bivšoj Jugoslaviji, u procesu njenog raspada i neposredno nakon njega.
Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European ...communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in this work is largely based on media reporting and comment between the years 2005-15. From this basis a solid, informative background to the explosive mass Muslim immigration to Europe and the terror, conflict, racism, religious, social and political clashes of today is framed. No other scholarly work, yet one written in an empirical, attainable style, succeeds in presenting a more comprehensive, coherent and cohesive overview of the elements behind the headline-making news emerging from the tumultuous state which is Europe today.
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