Focus on Southeastern Europe: How can Universities Become Incubators of Dialogue and Reconciliation?

Author: Turajlic S.

Source: Higher Education in Europe, Volume 25, Number 2, 1 July 2000 , pp. 259-263(5)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

After asking the rhetorical question, can dialogue and reconciliation be taught in the formal classroom sense, the author reluctantly replies in the negative. She cites the fact that decades of teaching the virtues of unity in diversity in socialist Yugoslavia in the schools and universities of the country did not prevent catastrophic disintegration after 1990. But then again, the universities might achieve the desired results in regard to dialogue and reconciliation by the example they set to the general public and from the stances that they take on public issues. Yet, in the Yugoslav crisis, they remained deafeningly silent. The author, nevertheless, does not give up hope that rather than adapting or adopting, the universities will lead and create.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

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