Rebuilding Balkan Bridges

By RICHARD BYRNE

15 years after Yugoslavia's bloody breakup began, teams of scholars from the region and from the West are trying to find common ground

Sitting at a table in a downtown restaurant here, Charles W. Ingrao is more than 4,500 miles away from Sarajevo. But as he talks with a reporter on a blustery January morning, Mr. Ingrao, a professor of history at Purdue University's main campus, could be sitting at a cafe in Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital. There's coffee and Coca-Cola on the table,