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Political elites in BiH are still fighting the war via soft issues like education and are using education to control the population in each of the three ethnic cylinders created by the DPA(Perry, 2012). Education has been used to continue the ethnic cleansing stopped by the end of the war, resulting in the three ethnic cylinders in which ethnic political elites engender hatred and stoke fears to stay in power. As a result, any ‘possibility of a multi-ethnic polity is often repressed and marginalized’ (Belloni, 2001, p. 173). Local politicians have attempted to dominate education policy in BiH in the post-war era with efforts to continue the ethnic cleansing policies of the war via education (Durmic-Kahrovic, 2000), using numerous and staunch efforts to preserve the ethnically divided education system (Perry & Keil, 2012; Stabback, 2007).
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Lanahan, B. (2017). Divided Education—Education in Ethnic Cylinders. In: Post-Conflict Education for Democracy and Reform. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57612-5_5
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