(POST) DAYTON BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: CONTRADICTIONS OF POSTCONFLICT PEACE BUILDING Cover Image

(Post)dejtonska BiH: protivrječnosti postkonfliktne izgradnje mira
(POST) DAYTON BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: CONTRADICTIONS OF POSTCONFLICT PEACE BUILDING

Author(s): Sanela Bašić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: conflict transformation; post conflicts peace building; Dayton Peace Agreement

Summary/Abstract: Importance and necessity of post conflict peace building come from understanding that this process covers a wide spectrum of questions directed to address real conflicts sources, putting the peace on more durable, self-sustainable bases. Observed in mentioned frameworks, International community intervention in the process of peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina, initiated by leading international forces, coordinated by Council for peace implementation, implemented by various agencies beside direct assistance of the High representative office, has concentrated on three area: free elections, capacity building and civil society development. One decade and a half later, the assessment of success and sustainability of intervened efforts of International community in peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has showed at least ambivalent. Contrasting the range of post-Dayton peace building by theoretical models of successful conflicts’ transformation, the author identifies and elaborates the key contradictions Bosnian-Herzegovinian post conflicts of peace building which obstructed and subverted the development of democratic structures. Ambivalent of post conflicts peace building are analysed on the other side of lines immanent of Dayton agreement and/or politics of its implementation, as well at the local political elites’ level, as in International community approach.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 150-161
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian