This fascinating, in-depth article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, traces the work of Sabina Cehajic-Clancy, a social psychologist who studies intergroup conflict and reconciliation in present day Bosnia and Herzegovina. A former refugee from the very conflict she now works to understand, Cehajic-Clancy turned down more prestigious academic positions in the United States and England to work at the newly founded Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, where she can be close to the people she wished to interview and observe. While some of Cehajic-Clancy's findings have been positive, she has also found that Serbs tend to deny the atrocities of Muslims outright or insist that it would be better to forget. As she says in the article, "It is unbelievable the extent and amount of creativity that people possess when it comes to denying."
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