Saturday, December 2, 2023, 3:00 pm, May Day Books – 301 Cedar Ave South, Minneapolis
While the most recent US/NATO war is fought in Ukraine, the brutal civil war that ripped apart Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, ended in the first US/NATO war, part of a larger dismemberment of Yugoslavia by the US and its key capitalist allies in Europe. NATO’s involvement was purportedly based on the need for humanitarian intervention.
This talk explores the background of the war in Bosnia, and how the destruction of Yugoslavia was created by the Western powers, the same Western powers who then justified intervention on humanitarian grounds: the need to stop the killing that they themselves had started and fueled.
Based on the speaker’s research during a 2023 study inside Bosnia, the talk focuses on current conditions in Bosnia, the causes and development of the civil war, and the destruction of the former Yugoslavia, as well as the education system of Bosnia (the “two schools under one roof” system of segregated education), the language divorce (the efforts to create separate languages out of a single language), and the state of post-civil war society.
Sponsored by May Day Books. Endorsed by Vets for Peace Chapter 27 and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) End War committee.
About the Speaker: Michael Livingston has been active in the Peace and Antiwar Movement for over 40 years, first becoming active in the Central American Movement of the 1980s. He is currently a professor of psychology and holds a Ph.D. in Child Psychology. FFI: email mlivingston@csbsju.edu or call 612.619.7817
