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Final Paper Re-sit Why the European efforts to stop the conflict in Bosnia did no good?
Table of contents:
Introduction page 3 Why I have decided to raise the question? page 4 History of the conflict - page 5 How the conflict coulve been settled better? page 6 How the situation can be improved? page 7 Short summary page 7 Bibliography page 8
Introduction
The war in Bosnia, the longest part of the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia is one of these events that can be argued whether they are the end of an era or the begging of another. For three years on the Balkans, and in Europe itself there was a war that killed 145 000 people, injured 174 000, and 2.5 million people were forced to leave their homes. Only in the Bosnians capital Sarajevo for the three years of siege, 10 000 people were killed. Throughout its history, the country has always been a place where Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Islam have been maintaining its fragile existence. Bosnia is the key place where these three communities the Serbian Orthodox, the Croatian Catholics, and the Bosnian Muslims collided.
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Summary
Bosnia was a hard lesson for the other Balkan countries with their own potential Bosnia. It showed that ethnic and minority relations still need to be improved and analysed, it showed how fragile they are and how easy to break, especially when they are not guaranteed by democratic political structures to protect them. The war killed 145 000 people and is considered to be the worst conflict after World War 2. When the conflict started many mistakes were made by the western world, which contribued to worsen the conflict. Many reforms still need to be taken in order to build a strong democratic society and the rule of law.
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