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Large number and various topics of the workshops and plenary sessions,
as well as the large number of conference participants render a
greater meaning to this series of conferences, so that we can rightly
refer to them as a congress of Croatian and Serbian historians. Thereby,
it is important to emphasize that the Dialogue of Croatian and
Serbian Historians was initiated outside of the political sphere, and it is
continued in the same way, although – in scientific sense – it strives to
achieve an official form of dialogue between the interested parties in
the framework of the frequently mentioned international and internal
reconciliation project (although we cannot talk of reconciliation in this
context, but of rebuilding of trust between the stakeholders). The
exclusive aim of the project is to develop a scientific awareness on
society, and to spread historical and other knowledge that can contribute
to internal reconciliation and the reconciliation with others. The
aim, therefore, is not political reconciliation, but reconciliation with
one’s own past and history.
Consequently, both the conferences and conference publications Dialogue
of Croatian and Serbian Historians have shown that both in
Croatia and in Serbia there are historians who are capable of scientific
discourse, without political influence. Or more accurately, they have
shown that there are individual historians in both countries that have
shown to be ready for a dialogue, which in its relation to the science
and its departure from the politics, is sometimes easier with the other
side, than with one’s own side.
Zusammenfassung
In Organisation der deutschen Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNSt). Der
Stiftung für liberale Politik fanden in sechs Jahren (1998-2003) acht
internationale Konferenzen unter dem Titel Kroatisch-Serbischer Historikerdialog
statt, und im Laufe von fünf Jahren (2000-2004) wurden
acht Konferenzpublikationen veröffentlicht: Kroatisch-Serbischer Historikerdialog,
Herausgeber: Hans-Georg Fleck und Igor Graovac, 1-8,
Zagreb, FNSt, 2000 (Bd. 1 und 2), 2001 (Bd. 3 und 4), 2002 (Bd. 5
und 6), 2003 (Bd. 7) und 2004 (Bd. 8). Zu Beginn wurden die
Konferenzen in Ungarn veranstaltet (1998-2000), und später (2001-
2003) abwechselnd in der Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien (SRJ), jetzt
Serbien und Monte Negro (SiCG), und in der Republik Kroatien. An