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Abstract
The desire to belong in a individual culture means to possess a clear vision for the
world, a road map that guides its followers towards the proper understanding of the
planet’s past present and future. An established mythology of apparent national identities
in the Balkans is somewhat unnaturally reinforced to justify conflicts between religious
and ethnic groups, caused as a result of the national identities intertwined among
themselves, an element essentially more influential than existence of national identities.
For centuries Christians and Muslims in the Balkans have been living in peace, however
a few Balkan Societies continue to use violence, national extremism, xenophobia as
well as a contemporary practice to solve their problems. A legitimate question can
be raised in relation to how common is religious influence used to cause violent and
armed conflicts as compared to violence originating from ethnic cleansing, control
over territory, political ideology and regional hegemony?