Over a three-year program starting December 2015 the Committee will
be working on a pioneering project to result in a solid, well-argued
and multi-perspective historical account of the Second Yugoslavia by
a team of authoritative historians from all the seven countries
emerging from it. To this end, scholars, committed to historical
facts rather than to politically motivated and usually mainstream
approaches to the Yugoslav historiography, will join hands in the
first cross-regional, scholarly endeavour to throw light on the
history of Yugoslavia – from its emergence in the aftermath of the
WWI, through post-WWII period till the bloody disintegration.
Via a strong online outreach, visibility actions and largely
disseminated publications, the project primarily addresses younger
generations – potential decision/opinion-makers – in the attempt to
empower them to discriminate misinterpretations, distortions and
revisionism from historical facts on the one hand and stand for
democratic tenets on the other, but also key regional stakeholders,
including curriculum developers, politicians, academics, the media,
etc., presently challenged by the EU agenda for normalization in the
Western Balkans.
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