CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITIZATION SPECIFIC TO THE 2014 SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN FLOODS; CIVIL SOLIDARITY AS AN ETHNIC CONFLICT RESISTANCE

Year 2022, Volume: 1 Issue: 4, 56 - 74, 15.01.2022

Faruk Hadžić

Abstract

Abstract
The paper presents insight into the consequences of emergency-based climate and crisis applications in the Balkans related to solidarity behavior, i.e., human securitization within civic pluralism, offering ethnic conflict opposition. Prior research in post-conflict countries focused on rebuilding destroyed and fragmented societies, liberal peacebuilding, state-building, transitional justice, income generation, or restoring people's sense of opportunity. However, the solidarity paradigm lacks administering climate change related to emergencies in the ethnoreligious divided nations (i.e., former Yugoslavia; Bosnia and Herzegovina). The paper examines human securitization cooperation in climate change, emphasizing the 2014 Balkans floods associating the post-Yugoslav citizenship paradigm within solidarity as an ethnic conflict resistance, arguing that the institutions had an abortion, and civic solidarity became requisite transforming an ethnic conflict. Through joint action and a systemic approach, it is possible to limit climate change consequences and work on capacity building and create a more resilient community capable of protecting its individuals. The resolutions to existing ethnic policies come from above through reactive civic solidarity, an ambivalence where citizen activists filled the gap in the crisis sensitively. Solidarity must also have a "polarity" to be symmetrical, not equalized with charity. An essential factor is the motive of proactivity, which neoliberalism and emerging ethnopolitics often confront. Political value and a certain level of nostalgia within socialist memory might have occurred through the solemnity of narratives. There must be effective counter-narratives to effectively change the subjectivity of citizenship and improve the ethnopolitical solidarity calculations. The comprehensive transformation of conflict means that even those organizations that are pillars of collective identity, which often exclude, alienate other communities in the process, must find a way to become active participants in civil society.

Keywords: Climate change, Southeast Europe floods, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, Civic solidarity, Human security, Conflict resistance, Ethnicity, Water management, Crisis

Keywords

: Climate change, Southeast Europe 2014 floods, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, Civic solidarity, Human security, Conflict resistance, Ethnicity, Crisis

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