War activities
Jagoda Savic didn't participate military forces in the war in former Yugoslavia
Her the most important activities are:
1. First media analysis of hate speech
Jagoda Savić made sociological analysis of media messages in Croatia and Srbian daily newspapers from March 1989 to March 1991. This research showed the influence of both media on collective conscious in oredr to prepare future war conflict. These increased feelings of being enemy to each other was mainly produced in media messages of life danger in Serbian print (“we were killed in 1941 and we shall be killed again“), media messages of ethnic distance (“we are too different and we can't live together any more“) and some other messages of danger and distance.
This research was presented in popular TV serial “Kako misliti Hrvatsku“, guided by prof. Slaven Letica.
2. The Law for protection of minorities
Jagoda Savić was a member of a group of experts of Croatian parliament that was established with purpose to prepare a first draft of the Law for protection of minotiries in Croatia in 1991.
3. The Commission for first war crime
Jagoda Savić was a member of the Commission of the Government of Croatia that was established to investigate the first war crime committed in Croatia in August 1991 in the village Dalj near Osijek.
Published in weekly “Globus“ on 16. 08. 1991
4. Voluntary work in Red Cross refugee ambulance
Jagoda Savić was a volunteer in the ambulance in refugee camp in Italy, situated within the barracs “Monte Pasubio“ in Cervignano del Friuli from 1992 to 1993 and assisted more than 1000 refugees both from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
5. Peace movements
Jagoda Savić participated politic session dedicated to the war in former Yugoslavia, so called “Verona forum“. This war evaluation took place in Verona, Italy, from 1992-1993 and it's participants were famous intellectuals that supported value orientation of living together and peace activists from all six republics of former Yugoslavia. “Verona forum“ was organized by the Green party of European Parliament and conducted by Alexander Langer.
6. War self- perception
Jagoda Savić proposed the idea to use the method of content analysis of written documents of dead participants of the war who can't testimony any more in front of ICTY. A lack of their live testimony in some cases can be substituted by written traces of their orientation, statements and action. Such analysis was not applied within the Tribunal for War Crimes in the Hague.
One of the analysis of Jagoda Savić was also one particular aspect of the most terrible war crime, committed in Srebrenica in 1995. Jagoda Savić put in the focus of her analysis forensic cathegory “mechanism of giultiness“ of the first president of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegović, focusing his moral Self. This forensic approach was applied on the speech of president Izetbegović, on the occasion when he was accused by defencers of Srebrenica to not protect citizens in order to exchange some war areas with the enemy and achieve ethnically clean territory.
The same cathegory „the mechanism of guiltiness“ was applied in analysis of politician Ivo Lozančić on the occasion of his possible role in war crimes in Tešanj, Maglaj and Doboj as well as war role of the member of the Presidency of the State Momčilo Krajišnik and his “blind spot“ reaction.
Published in daily “Jutarnje novine“ on 18. 07. 1998