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Subject: ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

/* Written 12:38 AM  Jul  9, 1995 by iskoric in igc:zamir.chat */
/* ---------- "ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE" ---------- */
What is this conference about?
 
It is about peace and understanding between people. It is about the
efforts to sustain and promote that understanding among peoples of
different ethnic groups in circumstances in which ethnic hatred is
prescribed and socially accepted mode of behavior. It is about the
efforts to maintain communications necessary to achieve that
understanding in environment of total communications breakdown -
when various governments deliberately cut communications between
their subjects, in order to make them more receptive for
nationalist propaganda, in order to prepare them for hate and war
against the "other side".
 
Here we observe the example of Zamir Transnational Net, ZTN - a
network set up to connect territories of former Yugoslavia in a
sort of virtual Cyberslavia. If we have luck and Sarajevo soon gets
electricity, and some thugs do not break computers in Belgrade, and
peace activists in Zagreb do not get drafted - we may observe a
rich thread of thought on peace between people formally at war with
each other, living in that obscure part of the world commonly known
today as former Yugoslavia.
 
ivo