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Croatia: reinterpretation of war guilt
Critical processing of the past with former soldiers
The situation:
All the states of the former Yugoslavia deny for the most part the crimes they have committed. Sentiments like “we were always the victims and the others were always the perpetrators” are wide-spread. Playing victim in this way generates paradigms and the allocation of blame leading to the erection of barriers blocking reconciliation in the region. The selective handling of the past is one of the major ‘mortgages’ for a peaceful future.
What we are doing:
With her project in Croatia Ursula Renner is contributing to the open examination and processing of the events of the war, thus strengthening the critical voices within the society. Her everyday routine is characterised above all by her work with Croatian war veterans. War veterans are first-hand eye-witnesses of the harm that war causes and are therefore particularly credible players. “There is a difference whether pacifists criticise Croatia’s role in the war or whether those persons do so that had an active involvement in the fighting”, says Ursula Renner, who had previously managed a forumZFD project with war veterans in Serbia.
In Croatia, she is working closely with a veterans’ association that is actively critical of Croatia’s role in the war. A member of the “Croatian Association of Former Home War Fighters“ based in Šibenik gave evidence in the trial in The Hague against the Croatian general Ante Gotovina. The small association is supported by Ursula Renner in its development and professionalisation. Project management, publicity work, organisation development and the holding of dialogue seminars for civilians and ex-soldiers are just some of the areas Ursula Renner is working on. Moreover, she is training veterans to become trainers themselves so that they can be put into the position of processing the issues involved within their own contexts.
Based on the contacts from her previous project in Serbia, Ursula Renner has been able to organise meetings between Croatian and Serbian veterans. In this way, the initial steps along the road towards the joint examination and processing of the war were made possible. Her aim is to continue working with the local peace and veterans’ organisations in the region. Together with them, she has drawn up a comprehensive project proposal with a three-year time-frame aimed at intensifying the peace work with war veterans from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. By way of preparing its implementation, she is currently organising seminars on project planning, communication training, team work and peace education together with one of the largest veterans’ organisations in Croatia.
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