The War in Yugoslavia and its Consequences for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans
The War in Yugoslavia and its Consequences for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans

Summary/Abstract: After the ending of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia i Herzegovina (BiH), the country has remained the most unstable society in the Balkans. The Dayton Agreement was a compromise for stopping the shooting. But it provided neither political justice nor a manageable basis for a modern state. There is still a large distance and mistrust between the three ethnic groups. Obstruction in the joint political institutions describes the behaviour of the politicians better than co-operation. This concerns the relationships between both entities, the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Bosniak-Croat Federation (FBiH) and also the conditions in the 10 Cantons within the FBiH. Nationalist parties are still dominant. This does not mean that there has been no progress at all in the relationships between people and between any kind of NGO such as, for example, trade unions. On this level, some important steps have been made. Several elections have shown a tendency for a slowly-decreasing support amongst the electors for nationalist parties. The NATO air strikes have destroyed this progress.

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