The city of Sarajevo has evolved over many centuries into a major multicultural center in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Growing from ancient origins, it developed the vibrancy of a Middle Eastern city but was also enriched by an ongoing process of intercultural dialogue between old-world civilizations and neighboring European cultures. Over half a millennium, while involved in this ...

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In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington argued that the primary axis of global conflict was no longer ideological or economic but cultural and religious, and that this division would characterize the “battle lines of the future.” In contrast to the "top down" approach in previous research focused on the relations among nation states, we focused on the flows of interpersonal communicati...