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ix Acknowledgments Given the multilateral nature of this project, it is impossible to acknowledge fully all of those who contributed materially to its completion. We begin, therefore, with an apology to the many scholars, program officers, editors, journalists, and public officials who advanced the project’s agenda, but whose names do not appear below. The Scholars’Initiative began modestly enough in 1997 when our colleague Dušan Bataković expressed an interest in beginning a dialogue between Serbian and Western historians to help rebuild the professional relationships that had been destroyed by the recent wars of Yugoslav succession. It assumed a much broader scope, thanks in large part to the encouragement and financial support from a series of institutional donors. An initial grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and the sustained support of Daniel Serwer transformed a modest historians ’ dialogue into a regionwide initiative that committed a broad range of scholarly disciplines to a sustained program of public engagement. Paul McCarthy and the staff of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) provided funds for research by successor state scholars, much as Ivan Vejvoda and the German Marshall Fund’s Balkan Trust permitted us to employ a stable of ten journalists as media liaisons in every republic capital, plus Banja Luka, Novi Sad and Priština. Deans Margaret Rowe, Toby Parcel and John Contreni of Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) filled in gaps in the funding chain, most notably by paying for roughly a quarter of the 45 trans-Atlantic trips made during the project’s career; CLA donors Fred and Ruth Graf provided unrestricted funds from the college’s Peace Studies program that defrayed communications costs, including maintenance of the project website. The Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) advanced modest, but essential grants as needed to fund researchers, liaisons and conference meetings during the three-year period (2005-2007) during which the SI operated in partnership with the IHJR. Finally, recent grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) and a second Balkan Trust grant assured that the project would continue through the end of 2009. In addition to these donors, a number of individuals and institutions hosted a series of SI conferences and satellite meetings (see Appendix), most notably Fuada Stanković (rector, University of Novi Sad), Ambassador Jacques-Paul Klein (mission chief, UNMiBH-Sarajevo), Jason Vuic (director, Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic & East European Studies), x Franz Szabo (director, University of Alberta’s Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies), and Rüdiger Malli (rector, Andrássy University). Several publishers have provided a platform for SI-commissioned publications , most notably Purdue University Press Director Thomas Bacher, and editors Steve Sabol of Nationalities Papers and Marie-Janine Calic of Südosteuropa. We also acknowledge the pre-publication receipt of Carla del Ponte’s Madame Prosecutor through the good offices of co-author Chuck Sudetić and Other Press publisher Judith Gurewich. Readers can consult the team mastheads and histories at the beginning of each chapter, as well as the plenary roster in the appendix for a comprehensive list of scholars (in boldface) who not only had unrestricted access to the process, but contributed materially to it. Nonetheless, the contributions of several team leaders, authors, and other participants bear special mention for the energy and dedication that they brought to the enterprise. In addition to her work as a team leader, Sabrina Ramet stood out in a group of scholars that included Eric Gordy, Marko Hoare, James Lyon, Dunja Melčić, James Sadkovich, and Mark Wheeler who provided detailed commentaries for most of the team chapters; in 2004, she also traveled at her own considerable expense to Sweden’s Hinseberg Prison to interview ICTY inmate Biljana Plavšić. Matjaž Klemenčič undertook multiple trans-Atlantic flights in discharging his obligations, including a trip to Houston, Texas for the sole purpose of interviewing former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. He was also one of several scholars, including Horst Haselsteiner, Dubravko Lovrenović, Gojko Mišković, Boban Petrovski, and Drago Roksandić who actively recruited scholars in their respective corners of the region. We acknowledge the special effort of those scholars who accepted the extraordinary burden of assuming leadership of a research team in mid-stream, including Marie -Janine Calic, Georg Kastner, Andrew Wachtel and Advisory Board member Gale Stokes, who readily volunteered to fill the void left by the sudden, tragic death of Dennison Rusinow. In addition, several team leaders...

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