Revealing everyday resistance during the war in Bosnia: how did ordinary people's actions disrupt conflict and promote peace?

1992年至1995年波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的战争的特点是动员普通人对其他族裔的人进行对抗和暴力。然而，许多普通人抵制证词表明他们的抵抗是如何与他们的日常生活和个人战争经历交织在一起的。在种族问题仍然存在政治分歧的社会中，揭露日常抵抗有可能积极地塑造集体记忆。人们已经认识到地方机构在建设和平中的重要性，并注意到南斯拉夫战争中少数有组织的抵抗活动，但日常生活领域仍然部分模糊。我的研究将使用目击者证词，包括联合国在1994-2005年拍摄的当代电视画面来揭示这一点。我以罗杰·麦克·金蒂最近的工作为基础，对分裂社会中普通人的日常行动和经历进行了结构化分析，以了解这可能如何促进和平或扰乱冲突。我将扩展这一研究议程，寻求进一步发展一个分析框架，并利用目击者的证词和原始的历史民族志研究来应用它。我的研究不仅旨在增进对波斯尼亚过去的了解，而且还为塑造其未来提供宝贵的资本。它将扩展一项研究议程，将战时在种族或国内冲突中抵抗的经验与未来的建设和平努力联系起来。

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 was characterized by the mobilization of ordinary people to antagonism and violence towards people of other ethnicities. However, many ordinary people resisted testimonies show how their resistance was entwined with their everyday lives and personal experience of war. Exposing everyday resistance has the potential to shape collective memory positively in societies in which ethnicity remains politically divisive. The importance of local agency in peace-building has been recognised and there has been some attention to the few instances of organised resistance in the Yugoslav war, the everyday realm remains partially obscured. My research will reveal it using eyewitness testimony, including contemporary television footage filmed by the UN in 1994-5. I build on recent work by Roger Mac Ginty to bring a structured analysis to the everyday actions and experience of ordinary people in divided societies to understand how this might promote peace or disrupt conflict. I will extend this research agenda by seeking to further develop an analytical framework and apply it using eyewitness testimonies and original historical ethnographic research. My research aims not only to enhance understanding of Bosnia's past but also to provide valuable capital in shaping its future. It would extend a research agenda connecting experience of war-time resistance in ethnic or civil conflict with future peace-building efforts.