V kulturi, ki normalizira nasilje in vojno – proti ljudem, živalim, rastlinam in celotnemu planetu – in v kulturi neskončnega izkoriščanja virov, tako organskih kot anorganskih, prostora in časa, je mir postal decentraliziran in delegitimiran. V bistvu se ga prikazuje kot oviro in prepreko za »svobodo, demokracijo in napredek«.

Zato vas vabimo, da se ustavite in si vzamete čas za pogled v preteklost, na neuspešne pobude, potencialno dobre rešitve in neuspešne izvedbe.

Bodimo ponižni pred trpljenjem in uničenjem, ki sta nehote oblikovala to, kar smo danes. Mir je vedno pogojen. Zahteva po brezpogojni naravi miru bi morala biti razumljena kot ključni element pri ustvarjanju sveta, v katerem je vredno živeti.

Ta knjiga je prispevek k iskanju takšnega sveta.

Kazalo vsebine:

Introduction

• Martin Pogačar, Sanja Petrović Todosijević: Peace. Unconditional. The Vestiges of Peace and the Socio-Political Frameworks of War The Idea of Peace

The Idea of Peace

• Tomaž Mastnak: Unconditional Peace? The Idea of Peace in Political Context
• Peter Klepec: On the Cruelty of War
• Petra Svoljšak: The War to End All Wars: A Broken Promise of Peace
• Nemanja Stanimirović: Yugoslav Dissidents as Agents of Peace in the Era of Détente
• Gal Kirn: Balkan Route to and from War: Reflections on Peace in Šejla Kamerić’s Cease (2023) and Nika Autor’s Sunny Railways (2023)

Political Practices of Peace

• Srđan Mićić: Yugoslavia’s Pacifist Foreign Policy and Actions in the League of Nations, 1920–1933
• Rastko Lompar: War and Peace within Interwar Yugoslav Radical Right Circles
• Zoran Janjetović: Indemnification for Nazi Victims, the Federal Republic of Germany and Yugoslavia
• Luka Savčić: “Struggle for Peace” as a Form of Yugoslav Internationalism: A Case Study of Anti-colonialism
• Natalija Dimić Lompar: Entering the Cold War “Struggle for Peace”: Yugoslavia and the International Forum for Peace, 1951–1954
• Jovan Čavoški: Yugoslavia, Formation of the Asian-African Group and Issues of Peace in the United Nations (1950–1953)
• Luka Filipović: From Czechoslovakia to Chile, in the Shadow of Vietnam: Anti-War Movements and the European Communists, 1968–1974
• Petar Dragišić: Yugoslavia and the Helsinki Summit in 1975

Images of Peace

• Zdenka Badovinac: Peace as a Space for the Third
• Katja Kobolt: Pictures of War, Pictures for Peace: Memory of the People’s Liberation Struggle in Yugoslav Children’s Literature
• Stanislava Barać: “Lest We Forget”: Desanka Maksimović’s Remembrance Politics and Anti-War Engagement
• Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu: On Seeing the Socialist Culture of Peace

Peacemakers

• Nika Grabar: Building Non-Peace
• Tina Filipović, Ana Kladnik: Non-State Actors as Active Agents of Peace in Cold War Europe
• Svetlana Stefanović: International Women’s Year (1975) and the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace (1976–1985) – The Yugoslav Answer
• Sanja Petrović Todosijević: International Children’s Friendship Meeting (1976–1988). Social Organisation of Children in Socialist Yugoslavia and Education for Peace
• Vladimir Petrović: Anatomy of a Lost Chance: Vance-Owen Peace Plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Geneva, January 1993
• Nataša Kostić: Teaching History and Learning about the Dissolution and Wars of the 1990s in Reconciliation Processes
• Martin Pogačar: Anti-Militarism in the Art of Stane Jagodič

Postscript

• Martin Pogačar: Pax Ante Futurum
• Notes on Contributors