Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Approach and the Role of Transitional Justice in the Sphere of Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons: Lessons for Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Approach and the Role of Transitional Justice in the Sphere of Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons: Lessons for Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of Transitional Justice providing for the problems, connected with internal displacement, dealing. Possibility and directions of Transitional Justice’s application in Ukraine was augmented in relation to the challenges caused by internally displacement of people, who had previously lived in Crimea and certain territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. A list of ways and prospective results of implementation of Transitional Justice elements was defined. The main approaches of Bosnia and Herzegovina strategic planning on the issues of internally displaced persons and Transitional Justice was studied. As a result some opportunities of its application in Ukraine were determined. The role of international community activities in post-conflict period in Bosnia and Herzegovina was investigated. The certain ways, which could support rising of positive and minimizing of negative effects of international actors’ presence in Ukraine, were outlined. Also an attention was paid to the issues of organizing the work of the authorities and building of civil society in these conditions.

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