Shared Values and Common Interests in the Region: Will the Balkans Ever Overcome its Identity-Based Politics?

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Mr. Ahmet Alibašić

Author: mr. Ahmet Alibašić

Over the years of university teaching, community preaching and civil society dialogues I have realized that diversity of the Balkans is widely perceived as its liability, a burden and the major source of its problems even by the people who are otherwise peace-loving and not chauvinist. It is true for people from the region and from outside it. This runs contrary to what scientists tell us and against liberal values.

But these people probably need to be forgiven because the way the region or rather its main actors have managed its diversity over the last two centuries or so has led many to reach this wrong conclusion.

After all, we should not expect ordinary people to distinguish between the problems stemming from diversity and those resulting from its (mis)management when their intellectual and political elites have done their best to diminish similarities and amplify differences which are allegedly cause of all our troubles.

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