Yugoslav wars shifted European moral judgment against ethnic expulsion

Evidence

That the delicate topic of forced migrations at all proved suitable to provide common ground for transnational dialogue and even reconciliation among ‘expellee societies’ and ‘expeller societies’ was due to a profound change in the moral evaluation of state-driven expulsion of ‘unwanted’ ethnic groups during the late twentieth century. Whereas up to the end of the Cold War ‘population exchange’ was considered a deplorable, yet somehow legitimate mode of operation of nation-states, the collapse of state-socialism and the wars in a disintegrating Yugoslavia of the 1990s – here in particular due to the media coverage of ethnic cleansing by expulsion as well as by genocide – changed public opinion in most of Europe. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1115

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American moral framing, not strategy, drove its anomaly in the Bosnian war; Conflict escalation alters even retrospective moral judgments of past in-group harms. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 86; Morality shifting redefines the frame so atrocities no longer seem immoral (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• American moral framing, not strategy, drove its anomaly in the Bosnian war #complicates (0.78)
• Morality shifting redefines the frame so atrocities no longer seem immoral #expands (0.75)
• Conflict escalation alters even retrospective moral judgments of past in-group harms. #expands (0.72) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 86
• War transformed Bosnian multiculturalism into Muslim nationalist dominance #qualifies (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 744