HUBRIS AND HUMILITY IN BOSNIA
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REVIEW ESSAY HUBRIS AND HUMILITY IN BOSNIA Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor By P. M. PICKERING Cornell University Press, 2007 The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society Edited by X. BOUGAREL, E. HELMS, and G. DUIJZINGS Ashgate, 2007 Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia By W. TOCHMAN Portobello Books, 2008 Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia By K. DOUBT Fordham University Press, 2006 âLook at us and listen to us. Do not interpret, do not reconstruct.â Six Characters in Search of an Author By L. PIRANDELLO, in a new version by R. GOOLD and B. POWER Nick Hern Books, 2008 On what basis can human rights practitioners and scholars ever really claim to know the victims whose stories they solicit and record? At what point do we feel conï¬dent enough to begin to interpret that experience to a wider audience â to venture a view on the larger signiï¬cance of those personal histories? A capacity for deep listening ought to be better prized in our Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol 1 | Number 1 | March 2009 | pp. 156â163 DOI:10.1093/jhuman/hun007 # The Author