Solidarity and Community Spirit during Evil Times

Abstract

The article aims both at identifying the various facets under which human solidarity manifested itself during the War of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) and at highlighting the growing awareness of the community spirit in the same period of time, resulting in a part of the population being saved and in many spiritual and material values being preserved. The analysis is based on genuine interviews given by subjects involved in the events, all of which being collected in the volume Good People in an Evil Time by Dr. Svetlana Broz, a journalist, social activist and cardiologist (now president of the Bosnia-Herzegovina branch of GARIWO International). This book has been a best seller, and has been translated in many languages and presented over many tours in about 50 universities in the USA.

Keywords

• the war of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• community spirit
• civil society
• solidarity