The Peace Academy was a partner with the Network for Peacebuilding in translating and publishing five academic books dedicated to the fight against right-wing populism, religious and ethno-national radicalization and violent extremism intended for the academic and activist communities. This project was initiated to make globally important topics additionally accessible to the BiH academic and activist communities by presenting and distributing the books free of charge.
The first book The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage Publishing, London, 2015) by Ruth Wodak which explores the micropolitics of right-wing populist parties will soon be available to academic and activist communities in our language. This book makes an important contribution to understanding the various discourses (media, virtual communication, political speeches) within far right populism, making the ways they are enacted and the consequences they can produce more accessible. In this work, Wodak cites examples of nationalist, xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has been normalized in public discourse.
Access to the BCS translation can be found via the BCS Publications pages.
The project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implementation was supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) within the BHRI program.
