From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine

Serwer, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02173-3

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“…To avoid a constant toleration loop where the dominant culture will change places with one of the subcultures, we need to identify key stakeholders who in Kosovo during the period 1998 to 1999, encompassed various influential entities, such as Kosovo Albanians, Serbs, governmental bodies, religious institutions, political parties, military forces, and economic entities from both sides (Nowakowska-Krystman & akowska, 2015). We argue that the same stakeholders are important in the rest of the western Balkan which is still defined today by religion and language belonging (Serwer, 2019). While it is hard to put the whole complex interethnic tensions on these divisions, one cannot avoid being confused by the intricate web of regional and linguistic or religious diversity which is later used as a reason for making these divisions even broader.…”

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confidence: 92%

Western Balkans: It’s Complicated An Inter-ethnic Communication Interdisciplinary Examination

Limani,

Majlichi,

Aslan

et al. 2024

JICC

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The western Balkans are persistently grappling with its unfavorable inter-ethnic reputation. Although political toleration has been consistently proposed as a solution for inter-ethnic tensions, this paper argues for the adoption of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) framework, offering a fresh perspective to an old problem. Rooted in the 'communication perspective', CMM provides a crucial platform for stakeholders to interact meaningfully. This study aims to present compelling reasons for embracing dialogical methods in interethnic disagreements. The CMM model focuses on empowering participants with knowledge to collectively shape their social realities. To illustrate, we introduce a visual communication model seamlessly integrating political toleration and CMM concepts. This model establishes a dialogical platform, ensuring equal participation from public and civil society stakeholders, and fostering a harmonious social world. In conclusion, CMM offers an alternative communication perspective crucial for those involved in interethnic dialogue. By adopting this approach, individuals and groups can overcome challenges, opening new avenues for understanding and collaboration in the pursuit of peaceful co-existence.

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confidence: 92%

Western Balkans: It’s Complicated An Inter-ethnic Communication Interdisciplinary Examination

Limani,

Majlichi,

Aslan

et al. 2024

JICC

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“…practically since 1945(Bieber, 2018, and until 2020. Đukanović did not remain immune to ethnic nationalism but was still able to curb its influence through cooperation with national minorities (Serwer, 2019).…”

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Preserving Peace in a Troubled Region: the Case of Montenegro

Knežević¹,

Savić²,

Vukićević³

2022

Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

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In the wake of the Cold War, Yugoslavia and its successor states were engulfed in a series of conflicts, including armed ones. In all of the republics - the newly independent states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia’s then-province of Kosovo, but with the exception of Slovenia - these conflicts were primarily ethnically driven. The only former Yugoslav republic to avert armed conflict in the 1990s was Montenegro, which regained its independence peacefully in 2006. In this article, the authors respond to the research question of why, out of all of the republics of the former Yugoslavia, was it only in Montenegro in which there was no ethnic conflict during the disintegration of the Yugoslav federation? The authors apply the Randall Collins theory of social conflicts to the case study of Montenegro. This theory combines geopolitical and ethnic factors for the absence or outbreak of conflicts, something which has a strong explanatory potential for this case study. Through a multidisciplinary approach, based on a case study as a qualitative method, the authors analyse various factors so that they are able to reach concrete conclusions in a comprehensive manner. The analysis covers historical, demographic, political, and special ethical aspects in Montenegro. Our explanation of the most important causes which ensured the absence of ethnic conflict in Montenegro is based on perspectives of what can be referred to as the neo-Weberian and anti-foundationalism approaches which emphasise the behaviour of the state, as well as geopolitical circumstances, as prime examples for the emergence or absence of ethnic-based conflict.

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“…The lesson boards can get intense but fire and others called out double standards and the space allowed internal critique. The lesson is infamous for intense music debates and according to historian Adam Serwer (2019) was “the strongest deliberative space in the early 2000s.” People argued passionately about music often criticizing the band that brought us there. Unsigned artists would turn to the board for sincere feedback, most notably 9th Wonder, Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh better known as Little Brother.…”

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Home Is Where the Ok Is? Early Okayplayer Message Boards & an Ethos of Acknowledgment

Hardy

2022

Social Media + Society

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In this essay, the author considers the online community of Okayplayer (OKP) as a pivotal progenitor in the development of a Black digital ethos. In particular, the author situates and interrogates Okayplayer as a “dwelling space” where self-identified Black identities developed digital voices and a communal ethic of acknowledgment. Indeed, 5 years before Facebook, and 7 years before Twitter; Okayplayer was a social media precursor—made for and by black folks. Prior to social media era, the OKP message boards were the rare space where black digital voices could be heard and acknowledged by peers and fellow recording artists such as Erykah Badu—a digital home or dwelling space. In this essay, I sample and extend Hyde’s redefinition of ethos as “home”; to online communities of color. Hence, this essay retrospectively examines OKP’s digital ethos as a cultural communal co-production where “discourse is used to transform space and time into dwelling places where people can deliberate about and know together some matter of interest” (p. xiii). By viewing OKP as discursive site, the paper interrogates the function of rhetorical voice in establishing dwelling spaces. My critical lens is informed by Mitra and Watts advocacy of marginalized digital voice. Voice is actualized as an architectural event, only when it is acknowledged. In relation to OKP, Watts contends that historically, Black voices that find acknowledgment develop a dwelling place based on ” a sort of collaboration..as a kind of “magic” by a communal will.

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From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine

Cited by 10 publications

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Western Balkans: It’s Complicated An Inter-ethnic Communication Interdisciplinary Examination

Western Balkans: It’s Complicated An Inter-ethnic Communication Interdisciplinary Examination

Preserving Peace in a Troubled Region: the Case of Montenegro

Home Is Where the Ok Is? Early Okayplayer Message Boards & an Ethos of Acknowledgment

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