Peace Scholar in Residence

he U.S. Institute of Peace welcomes Vjekoslav Perica, known as Vic, as the first resident peace scholar in the Jennings Randolph fellowship program. A doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Perica will work on his dissertation and contribute to Institute programs during the 1996-97 fellowship year.

Perica's doctoral thesis examines the activities of the Serbian Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches and of the Islamic community in promoting mass mobilization along nationalist lines among citizens of the former Yugoslavia from the 1960s through the 1980s. Perica will examine the religious organizations' contributions to the inter-ethnic and inter-religious competition among these groups that eventually fueled the war in Bosnia.

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