LEADER 04012nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910813086803321 005 20230926171437.0 010 $a0-8014-6346-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463464 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035271 035 $a(OCoLC)732957181 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539943 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345027 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539943 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10585287 035 $a(PQKB)10918909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138199 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28892 035 $a(DE-B1597)515312 035 $a(OCoLC)1083597512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463464 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468078 035 $a(OCoLC)922998193 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035271 100 $a20070712d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeacebuilding in the Balkans $ethe view from the ground floor /$fPaula M. Pickering 210 1$aIthaca [N.Y.] :$cCornell University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aErrata sheet inserted. 311 0 $a0-8014-4576-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The view from below -- Below the surface -- Self-understandings versus power -- The dilemma of migration -- Sites for building bridges -- The plague of politics -- Implications for Eurasia. 330 $aAfter suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and democratize a culturally divided society. The global community's strategy has focused on reforming political institutions, influencing the behavior of elite populations, and cultivating nongovernmental organizations. But expensive efforts to promote a stable peace and a multiethnic democracy can be successful only if they resonate among ordinary people. Otherwise, such projects will produce fragile institutions and alienated citizens who will be susceptible to extremists eager to send them back into war. Paula M. Pickering challenges the conventional wisdom that common people are merely passive recipients of peacebuilding projects. Instead, in Peacebuilding in the Balkans, she shows how ordinary people, particularly minorities in Bosnia, understand elite rhetoric and actively shape reconstruction.Pickering's years of fieldwork-direct observation, interviews, and analysis of many surveys-has yielded a precise understanding of how ordinary citizens react to and influence peacebuilding programs in their neighborhoods, workplaces, municipal agencies, and other real-life social settings. The evidence suggests that international efforts to rebuild an inclusive Bosnia will be futile unless they pay sufficient attention to citizens' varying ties to ethnic groups, indigenous forms of civic activity, and the development of nondiscriminatory employment and responsive political institutions. Pickering's insights from reconstruction in the Balkans have important implications for peacebuilding elsewhere in Eurasia. 606 $aPeace-building$zBosnia and Hercegovina 606 $aReturn migration$zBosnia and Hercegovina 606 $aBosnians$xEthnic identity 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xRefugees$zBosnia and Hercegovina 607 $aBosnia and Hercegovina$xPolitics and government$y1992- 607 $aBosnia and Hercegovina$xEthnic relations 615 0$aPeace-building 615 0$aReturn migration 615 0$aBosnians$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xRefugees 676 $a949.703 700 $aPickering$b Paula M$g(Paula May),$f1966-$01710796 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813086803321 996 $aPeacebuilding in the Balkans$94101675 997 $aUNINA