The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: The Cruel Face of Nationalism

Issue Date October 1993
Volume 4
Issue 4
Page Numbers 100-03
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About the Author

Vesna Pešić is director of the Center for Anti-War Action in Belgrade, Serbia. Active for more than two decades in movements favoring democracy and human rights, she was a founding member of the Belgrade Helsinki Committee and of the Association for a Yugoslav Democratic Initiative.

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