Understanding Reconciliation

The European Union’s Vision of Post-conflict Reconciliation in Croatia

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ID6453789
AuthorsSimona Vaškevičiūtė (0000-0003-4814-1104, Vilnius University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume48
Issue2-3
Pages383-413
Publication date2025-01-21
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSoutheastern Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-4467 • E-ISSN: 1876-3332
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.30965/18763332-48030003
OpenAlexW4407799628
LanguageEN
References cited20

This article determines the vision of post-conflict reconciliation in Croatia that the EU has been developing in its documents from the beginning of Croatia’s European integration to this day. Although post-conflict reconciliation became an EU prerequisite for the accession of candidates from the Western Balkans, since the introduction of the revised enlargement strategy the EU has not stated how post-conflict reconciliation should be understood. Considering the debatable nature of the reconciliation concept, it is unclear what the EU was trying to achieve by engaging in Croatia’s reconciliation development process. Extensive theoretical-reconciliation-literature-based qualitative content analysis of 267 EU documents reveals the overall reconciliation vision applied to Croatia and uncovers how it evolved over time. This understanding of EU’s specific expectations on reconciliation development, which is often overlooked in existing literature, provides a research-based reference point for the assessments of EU’s actual achievements in reconciliation development

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