Warfare in ethnically mixed Yugoslav regions took either conventional or genocidal forms.

Evidence

Not all regions of the former Yugoslavia were exposed to the same intensity or to the same type of collective violence. The majority of the regions remained intact despite the wars. Intergroup violence typically occurred in ethnically mixed regions where different ethnic groups had peacefully cohabitated for decades. Across many of these regions, warfare frequently followed the pattern of conventional civil wars, with violent confrontations between armed forces of local ethnic groups. … Yet, in some municipalities and regions, warfare developed into genocidal violence, where external armed forces targeted civilians in order to achieve control over and even ethnically cleanse these areas (Weidmann 2009). The extreme case was genocide in Srebrenica, the Bosnian municipality where Serb armed forces massacred an estimated 8,000 Bosniaks in July 1995. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 43

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Event-level classification of violence distinguishes symmetric from sequential asymmetric victimization. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 79; Yugoslav war parties framed local enemies as confrontations between entire civilizations — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 751; Each Yugoslav party claimed a civilizational mission and victimhood identity — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 751 (+1 more)

Related

• Former Yugoslav states differed sharply in which types of wartime violence their populations experienced. (similarity 0.81)
• Yugoslav war parties framed local enemies as confrontations between entire civilizations (similarity 0.80)
• Each Yugoslav party claimed a civilizational mission and victimhood identity (similarity 0.80)
• Observers and participants came to read the Yugoslav wars as religious wars (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Yugoslav war parties framed local enemies as confrontations between entire civilizations #expands (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 751
• Each Yugoslav party claimed a civilizational mission and victimhood identity #expands (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 751
• Each Yugoslav faction narrated its local war as an epic civilizational mission #expands (0.75)