Troubled Pasts in Europe : Strategies and Recommendations for Overcoming Challenging Historic Legacies

Based on the findings of a major research project, this book investigates how European societies confront their troubled pasts today.

In particular, the text explores what kinds of measures can be taken and which strategies endorsed to facilitate the process of overcoming difficult historic legacies in seven European states: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Cyprus and Poland. The book is written by an international team of experts and examines strategies and actions in both policy making and civil society of European countries, as well as throughout the EU as a collective.

Rok Zupančič is Associate Professor in Security Studies at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. Currently, he leads the research project Anxious Peace, which aims at answering the question of how to reduce the ethnic distance between the people previously involved in armed conflicts by using a novel interdisciplinary approach at the nexus of peacebuilding studies, social psychology, neurobiology, and body-oriented somatic techniques.

Faris Kočan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. His research is focused on the Europeanisation of the Western Balkans and the role of the European integration in addressing the troubled past of post-Yugoslav space.

Kenneth Andresen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Agder in Norway. He holds a PhD in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of Oslo. His current research interests are within transitional journalism, conflict history, and historical postcards.

Katarzyna Bojarska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies of the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland.

Ricardo Dacosta is a pre-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He holds a master's degree in Political Analysis from the University of Barcelona.