Rok Zupančič & Faris Kočan 
Troubled Pasts in Europe [EPUB ebook] 
Strategies and Recommendations for Overcoming Challenging Historic Legacies

Based on the findings of a major research project, this book investigates how European societies confront their troubled pasts today.
In particular, the text explores what kinds of measures can be taken and which strategies endorsed to facilitate the process of overcoming difficult historic legacies in seven European states: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Cyprus and Poland. The book is written by an international team of experts and examines strategies and actions in both policy making and civil society of European countries, as well as throughout the EU as a collective.

Table des matières

1. Introduction
2. Methodology: From Research Results to Recommendations
Part I: Non-EU Member States
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina: from Coexistence to Unresolvable Past?
4. Kosovo: Troubled Past and Its Path to Moving On
Part II: EU Member States
5. Germany: The Wall is Dead, Long Live the Wall!?
6. Ireland Beyond Ethnopolitics: Recommendations for all Island Integration
7. Spain: How to Overcome the Polarization about the Conflicts of the Past?
8. Cyprus: The EU’s Role in Europe’s Last Divided Country
9. Poland: Strategies for Challenging the Growing Dominance of Right-wing Memory Politics
10. The European Union
11. Conclusion

A propos de l’auteur

Tjaša Vučko is a Ph D student in Balkan Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. Her doctoral research is focused on everyday peacebuilding with special emphasis on non-war communities.