ZAVNOBIH – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AS THE ANTI-FASCIST COMMUNITY OF VALUE PLURALISM Cover Image

ZAVNOBIH – BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA KAO ANTIFAŠISTIČKA ZAJEDNICA VRIJEDNOSNOG PLURALIZMA
ZAVNOBIH – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AS THE ANTI-FASCIST COMMUNITY OF VALUE PLURALISM

Author(s): Asim Mujkić
Subject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: ethnonationalism; social contract; value pluralism; Anti-Fascism;
Summary/Abstract: Author starts with a claim that three decades long domination of ethnic nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) is based on a process of mobilization of internal ethnicities resulting in production of distinctive social realities, which eventually might lead to distinctive territorial-political entities, nuclei of would-be single-nation states. Contrary to this process, based on experience of political solidarity, as a counter-principle, author identifies the principles of ZAVNOBIH (Anti-Fascist Council of People’s Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Author suggests that ZAVNOBIH represents a unique autochthonous compact of social and political unity in all its complexity and plurality of values. Being as such, it represents an authentic answer to the eternal political question: “What holds us together?” This compact is, according to author, based on three important principles: value pluralism (I. Berlin), social justice, and Anti-Fascist principle.