Yugoslavian Conflict

Given a list of events from the Yugoslavian conflict, we ranked the top five most significant. In fact, we found that four of the five events were caused by political unrest. The remaining event was due to nationalism. Looking at the list of events in chronological order, we can see that politics and nationalism are the biggest factors in the cause of the conflict, which resulted in a major ethnic cleanse of the area. The conflict was caused by a combination of political and nationalistic views. The top event that we interpreted as the main cause is that Bosnia & Herzegovina have over 40 political parties and no predominant nationality. Its 4.4 million people are 40% Muslim, 33%

Serbian and 19% Croatian. We felt this could have been one of the most significant causes of the conflict because when a country has 40 divided political parties, a conflict will inevitably arise. Compared to the rest of the events, the division of politics appears to have the most powerful affect on the unrest. Overall it appeared that, politics and nationalism lead to the Balkanization of Yugoslavia.