Abstract
In March 2021, Serbia made the unprecedented announcement to offer free Covid-19 vaccination to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and notably to Bosniaks, against whom three decades earlier Serbia had waged a bloody war. How was this policy appraised and, most importantly, did the policy appraisal impact reconciliation? We report here the results of a longitudinal investigation amid a representative sample of Bosniak youth (N = 450). Results suggest that a positive appraisal of this actual, state-level policy, predicted improvement on a series of intergroup reconciliation indicators (e.g., trust in the out-group, forgiveness for past violence, hope for future relationship), particularly so amid those who are strongly attached to their Bosniak in-group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1099-1109 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | European Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 09 Jan 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2024 |
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- Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans
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