The following article is being retracted from publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies:
“Warlords, priests and the politics of ethnic cleansing: a case-study from rural Bosnia Hercegovina” by Mart Bax, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2000, pp. 16–36, DOI: 10.1080/014198700329114
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014198700329114
as a result of an investigation conducted by the Free University of Amsterdam which determined research conducted by and used by Mart Bax as a basis for published work to be the result of scientific misconduct.
The Editors and publishers of the journal, Taylor & Francis, note we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on warranties made by the author regarding the originality and provenance.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘retracted’.
For further details, the Free University of Amsterdam's Report is available online here: http://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/20130910_RapportBax_tcm9-356928.pdfFootnote1 (Dutch) or http://www.vu.nl/en/Images/20131112%20Rapport%20Commissie%20Baud%20Engelse%20versie%20definitief_tcm12-365093.pdf (English).
Notes
1. Draaien om de werkelijkheid. Rapport over het antropologisch werk van prof. em. M.M.G. Bax by Michiel Baud, Susan Legêne, Peter Pels (2013). http://www.vu.nl/nl/Images/20130910_RapportBax_tcm9-356928.pdf (last accessed 17th January 2014).