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historians and other experts, to the first international scientific conference
entitled The Dialogue of Croatian and Serbian Historians, which
was held at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Pecs at the end of
1998. Three further conferences were also held in Pecs after that, in
1999 and 2000. In March of 2001, the conference took place in
Herceg-Novi, Monte Negro, FRY, for the first time, and then also in
Zagreb, RC, in October the same year. After that, the 7th conference
took place in Belgrade, Serbia, FRY, in 2002, and the 8th one in Zadar,
RC, in 2003. It soon proved, despite the previous unscientific
approach, and even gloating expectations, that the democratic and
pluralistic dialogue, also on opposing interests, did not present a setback,
but an opportunity for mutual enrichment and opening of new
prospects and insights. So, it showed that an intellectual and liberal
discussion in a society and among societies, which strive for democracy,
pluralism and tolerance, cannot be part of the problem itself, but
only part of its solution. One, therefore, needs to go even further,
because it is not enough just to collect scientific insights, nor it is
enough to only make these insights available to the wider public by
publishing the collected papers from the conferences (Dialogue of
Croatian and Serbian Historians, vol. 1-8, edited by Hans-Georg Fleck
and Igor Graovac, Zagreb, FNSt, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003).