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Discussion

2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the seven months long armed conflict in today’s North Macedonia, while 13 August – the peace agreement that contributed to ceasefire: the so called Ohrid Framework Agreement. Both the conflict and the peace agreement have been dictating the public agenda over the interethnic issues in the state ever since, with the various formal and informal commemorations related to 2001 being particular triggers for ethno-national mobilizations and exclusivist discourses. 

Drawing upon an exclusive set of materials from a research project conducted this year, I aim at presenting a paper on the patterns of various groupist commemorations of 2001, in particular, and peacebuilding, in general, in post-conflict North Macedonia. The case study will be argued to be a neat illustration of the changing international regimes of dealing with the past and transitional justice in the last two decades, as well as their internalization in the local context: both by official actors and the non-official activists.