Taking into account the history of Yugoslavia that you have studied do you feel that lasting peace is possibly in the independent states of former Yugoslavia?

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Taking into account the history of Yugoslavia that you have studied do you feel that lasting peace is possibly in the independent states of former Yugoslavia?

Yugoslavia has a very complicated history, there was peace throughout Yugoslavia up until the 1980’s when conflict started to arise, and this was shortly after Tito died as they no longer had an obvious leader. There had always been ethnic tension underneath the peace but now that the recent conflicts have been resolved we have to think if peace is likely to carry on. Peace seems more likely in different countries due to various reasons.

        I think that there is likely to be lasting peace in Croatia, this is for a number of reasons .They have recently built up a strong tourism trade after the Croatian war had ended , and this brings in a lot of money and jobs to the surrounding area’s. It also helps to make the area prosperous and they would not be able to keep the tourism trade running if conflict was to arise. Croatia along with many other countries wants to be in the EU. This also helps the likelihood of peace because to join the EU you have to follow a number of rules, you have to be a democratic county that means that everyone has to have a say in government, this is an example of why peace would last as there would be no ethnic tension because everyone has a say in what goes on in there country. You have to respect the law and human rights and protect minority groups, this is good because yet again it will help bring down ethnic tension, you also have to have a strong economy and if there is a conflict in Croatia then they are not going to have a strong economy. You also have to hand over war criminals, and Croatia has started to hand over some of there war criminals, this makes it more likely that they will get into the EU. Joining the EU has many benefits for countries they will have increased trade, there value of land will increase and they will have protection of the EU, these are all good benefits and well worth it.  Another reason for peace to stay in Croatia is that it is predominantly Croat, which means there is not going to be a lot of ethnic tension if any; therefore this will help keep the peace.

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        I think that there is likely to be lasting peace in Slovenia as well. This is due to the fact that it has a well developed tourism trade in the skiing industry. This provides money and jobs for surrounding area’s and people. If there was going to be conflict in this area then there tourism trade would start to decline.  The ethnic tension is going to be less in Slovenia due to the fact that there are mainly Slovenians, this is another sign that peace can last.  Slovenia does not need to try and join the EU as it has ...

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