What caused the Yugoslavian war? ?
Yes. Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian War, conflict from 1991 to 1995 that represented a clash of states amid the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). One state, Serbia, attempted to create the borders of a new federal state for Serbs, which was intended to incorporate territory taken from two of the others, Bosnia (see Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Croatia, where there were large ethnic Serb communities. This state project was countered by the two states from which Serbia sought to carve territory, both of which, along with two other states (Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) sought to maintain their territorial integrity and to establish their independence (although Croatia, with territory under Serb control, also made an attempt to seize territory from Bosnia in the course of the conflict). Following the declarations of independence at the end of June 1991, a major armed conflict ensued. Coercive terror was the central characteristic of t
For the most part (excepting the 1991 War in Slovenia), the conflict has in common a drive towards the establishment of various “ethnically clean” Serbian areas within SFR Yugoslavia, and their eventual preferred union with Serbia proper, thus creating an enlarged state populated by a vast majority of ethnic Serbs. The ideal of a “Greater Serbia” was the perceived goal and primary motivation for many of the Serbian fighters and volunteers that engaged in the conflict, especially for the members of Serbian paramilitary units involved in the fighting. The Croatian and Bosnian sides in particular claimed that the establishment of such a state was the end ambition of the Serbian leadership, and included this claim in their respective wartime propaganda campaigns.
The same thing that causes most wars, intolerance and failure of a language to work. Violence erupts when language fails. When people, even vastly different people with vastly different beliefs can learn tolerance. It is when tolerance breaks down that war starts. Yes, prejudice played a role. Intolerance of others who disagree with another group of people has always been the major cause of war.
