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short-term and hasty “solutions,” and to reach out to the public in
the affected region so as to explain the essence of the crisis and the
kinds of actions needed to defuse it. As demonstrated by the continuing
hold that nationalism exerts over most of the population of Serbia,
and by the continuing fidelity of Serbian elites to their dreams of
Greater Serbia, the full normalization of relations and lasting peace
are conditional on political and public recognition of the true nature
of the causes of the conflict.