BOSNA HERSEK’ TEKİ ETNİK SAVAŞIN EĞİTİME YANSIMALARI

Abstract

The area of education has been used as a bridge to access better living condition, rebuilding and reconstructing the post conflict societies and undeveloped countries suffered from war. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BİH) is one of the post conflict societies suffering from damages the ethnic war created. Before starting to war BiH belonged to the Yugoslavia where people from different ethnic groups lived side by side in peace. Along with the onset of the war in Yugoslavia, everything was changed and reversed in BiH. Individuals from different ethnic groups became adversaries to each other. The war created deep ethnic, religious and national segregations in BiH which formerly famous with its multiethnic and multicultural tradition. These divisions extended to education system. The war caused destruction and divided schools, curriculums, teachers, and overall education system of the society. This paper attempts to explore the factors triggering segregated education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.