TRACING MEMORIES OF WAR: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF CITIZEN ATTITUDES TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING THE KOSOVO WAR
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This article explores the attitudes and perceptions of citizens towards human rights violations, massacres, and war crimes committed during the Kosovo War of 1998/99 through empirical research conducted twenty years post-conflict. The study is unique in its endeavor to measure such attitudes and perceptions within a temporal distance of two decades and for its focus on how individual memories of these events have been passed down to generations born post-1999. The study draws data from a survey conducted with 262 Kosovo citizens and content analysis of secondary sources like scholarly literature and reports from international organizations. The results highlight the structural changes in Kosovo citizens’ evaluations and perspectives concerning the 1998/99 war events, providing a comprehensive and contextual understanding of their assessments. The implications of this study hold the potential to greatly enrich our understanding of how societies remember, interpret, and transmit their histories of conflict.
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