For Human Rights: Constructing the multinational Brčko District in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract The Brčko District was conceived to be a multiethnic political-administrative unit in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. Various efforts have been made to accomplish this since the year 2000, such as the construction of urban space with the equitable presence of the three national groups reco...

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Autor: Peres,Andréa Carolina Schvartz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
Repositorio:Vibrant
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:scielo:S1809-43412018000300509
Acceso en línea:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412018000300509
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Education
Multiculturalism
Heritage
Brčko District
conflict
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Sumario:Abstract The Brčko District was conceived to be a multiethnic political-administrative unit in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. Various efforts have been made to accomplish this since the year 2000, such as the construction of urban space with the equitable presence of the three national groups recognized by the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the unification of the school system, both with the aim to guarantee human rights, understood as equal cultural rights. This article focuses on the educational system and the monuments policy to critically analyze these endeavors by revealing how policies for the construction of a multinational space have contributed to the maintenance of a divided city, where the borderlines do not need to be official to exist and constantly remind everyone to which group they belong to and what this means.