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While academic research on human rights today focuses primarily on the promotion of freedom of religion as something positive, the misuse of religious freedom of religion remains under-researched. The deployment of religion to fan ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina as of the 1990s, and to this day, offers lessons that can be applied to the current situation in Ukraine or the ongoing crisis in Syria. The Balkanisation of Europe threatens to become a global crisis. Benjamin Gregg’s proposal of a human rights state aspires to justice, and justice in this context requires the neutralising of the cynical misuse of religious freedom. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, education appears to be the most promising channel for facilitating a non-abusive approach to religious freedom, a goal challenged by the sheer complexity of everyday life in a multi-ethnic community riven by conflict, but also by deeply problematic political solutions such as the Dayton Agreement. The final version of this research has been published in International Journal of Human Rights. © 2017 Taylor & Francis |
