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Rebuilding the Divided City of Mostar

By Sylvia Poggioli

Published December 25, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

Nearly a decade after its destruction in the war, a replica of Mostar's Old Bridge is being constructed at the same site.

In the eight years since the Dayton peace agreement put an end to a three-sided war in Bosnia, the country has become a kind of laboratory for nation building. Americans and Europeans have tried to promote reconciliation -- and poured billions into Bosnia's reconstruction. But in the city of Mostar, ethnic division, intolerance and tribal politics prevail. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

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Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.

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