Reconciliation, Ethnopolitics and Religion in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Abstract

So much has been written about Bosnia-Herzegovina that almost every aspect of its very recent past has been discussed from various perspectives and in different disciplinary approaches. At the moment, it is important to note that the political system of Bosnia-Herzegovina is highly complex institutionally. This is one of the results of the political negotiations that led to the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA, 1995), which endorsed consociational mechanisms of power-sharing that trade individual human rights and liberties for nominal equality among (ethnic) groups. 1 The state is underperforming economically, there is a perpetual political crisis and progress toward membership in the European Union (EU) — so often understood as the final destination of the “transitional journey” — is almost non-existent. The key findings of the EU 2011 Progress Report on Bosnia-Herzegovina emphasize, although in a diplomatic manner, that the overall pace of reforms has been very limited. 2 The majority of efforts by international and domestic actors to mitigate the consequences of the war at the level of social relations have been insufficient, largely because many of the roots of the conflict still prevail, in a variety of new and old forms. Consequently, a predominant ethnicization of all aspects of social and political life is one of the crucial issues that have not yet been adequately addressed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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