Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States

46. Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, eds., In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion
in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001).
47. See for example, The Holocaust Chronicle (Lincolnwood, IL.: Publications
International, 2000); David I. Kertzer, The Popes against the Jews: The Vatican’s
Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (New York: Knopf, 2001); John Cornwell,
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New York: Penguin Books, 2000).
48. See “The Wages of Sin: Confronting Bosnia’s Republika Srpska,” International
Crisis Group, Sarajevo/Brussels, 8 October 2001, available at www.
crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.
49. Feral Tribune, no. 819, 26 May 2001.
50. The Serbian deputy premier, Nebojsˇa Ćović, said on 18 May 2001 in
Belgrade that Kosovo should be divided into ethnic Albanian and Serbian entities,
AP reported. Ćović told a panel of scholars and diplomats that the province
could be split into a “Serb entity with most of the Serb historical and cultural
monuments ...and an ethnic Albanian entity where the majority of the population
would be Kosovo Albanians.” He declined to give details of any division
but said that “the proposal means that both sides would have to give up their
maximalistic demands.” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Newsline, Southeastern
Europe, 21 May 2001.
51. As reported by the moderate Bosnian Croat author Ivan Lovrenović, Feral
Tribune, no. 820, 2 June 2001.
52. Florian Bieber, “Croat Self-Government in Bosnia—A Challenge for Dayton?”
ECMI brief no. 5, May 2001. Available for viewing and download at: http:
//www.ecmi.de/publications/working_papers_reports.htm.
53. USIP Special Report: “Faith-based NGOs and International Peacebuilding,”
prepared by David Smock, Washington, DC, 22 October 2001. Available at
the USIP website, www.usip.org/pubs.specialreports/.
54. Some of the participants in recent Balkan peacemaking efforts are the
following: American Friends Service Committee; American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee; American Jewish World Service; American Muslim Council;
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America; Catholic Relief Services; Christian
Peacemaker’s Team; Cooperative Baptist Fellowship; Fellowship of Reconciliation;
Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy; Friends Committee for National Legislation;
Global Peace Services; Institute for Global Engagement; Institute for Human
Rights and Responsibility; International Center for Religion and Diplomacy;
Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice; Lutheran World Relief; Mennonite
Central Committee; Mercy Corps International; Moral Rearmament; National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; Plowshares Institute; Tanenbaum
Center for Interreligious Understanding; United Methodist Committee on Relief;
United Methodist Women’s Division; United Religions Initiative; World Conference
on Religion and Peace; World Vision. Ibid.
55. Ibid., p. 2.
56. Feral Tribune, no. 846, 3 December 2001.
57. See the USIP special report “Catholic Contributions to International
Peace” (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, April 2001).
58. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Tribunal Update, no. 245,
November 2001, p.
59. Early in 2001, the high EU official Carl Bildt wrote: “recent political transitions
in Belgrade and Zagreb have created a historic chance to make lasting
peace in the Balkans. Torn by ethnic strife for a century and a half, the region
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