A N A LY S I S DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE Problems and Challenges In the long run, an education approach based more on how than about what to learn would help enable the students to crit­ically approach their own in­group wrongdoings and histori­cal delusions and build critical thinking about the past. Educations based on facts rather than on»own versions of the past« and the politics of victimhood can lay the ground for reconciliation and overcom­ing even political and identi­ty-based conflicts of the past. Gazela Pudar Draško, Vedran Džihić, Dinka Čorkalo Biruški, Nora Ahmetaj and Samir Beharić December 2020 Courageous public action against ethnic segregation in schools, nationalism, and poli­tics of conflicting victimhood can result in profound changes.