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Collective Memory and Reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia (Research Brief)

July 22, 2008
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)
Author: 
Vasiliki Neofotistos

My research examines the larger question of whether and how it is possible for communities with different collective memories to live in reconciliation in the wake of violent conflict.

Specifically, I use the case study of the Republic of Macedonia and examine the social and political processes through which Macedonians and Albanians construe their memories of the 2001 conflict between government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA).

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Vasiliki Neofotistos, of SUNY- Buffalo, was a 2007-08 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow