ABSTRACT
This chapter tells the story about exclusion as well as inclusion of women in post-conflict restoration and democratization processes in the Balkans. The term Balkan covers countries and territories from geographical West to East: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. All of them except Albania were parts of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. All of these countries were countries which after the Second World War had been developing softer or stronger communist or socialist regimes and countries which in the end of 1980s and/or in the beginning of 1990s started the processes of transition — which again differ a great deal — from one-party rule to the political pluralism.
