Request for a Meeting Regarding the Stability and Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Request for a Meeting Regarding the Stability and Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The Bosnian Herzegovinian academic, cultural, and scientific community in the United States is deeply concerned about the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). We are alarmed by escalating threats to the Dayton Peace Agreement—the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995)—particularly threats of secession, genocide denial, and the glorification of war criminals. While such destabilizing actions have historically come from the leadership of Republika Srpska and have been supported by political actors in Serbia, we are increasingly witnessing similar actions from certain Croat political figures as well. During the December 2 Western Balkans Hearings, Mr. Max Primorac referred to Bosnia and Herzegovina as “a failed state,” a characterization we strongly reject. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a failed state. B&H has a long and distinguished history: the medieval Bosnian state was among the first sixteen kingdoms in Europe. Seven centuries later, Europe has forty-nine countries, yet there is no country quite like Bosnia and Herzegovina—one defined not merely by the coexistence of multiple cultures in close proximity, but by a singular and compelling culture and social order that encompasses all ethnicities and renders different faiths—Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and Orthodoxy—culturally interdependent. This is the true description of our shared homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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