Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Lack of Functioning Institutions
Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Lack of Functioning Institutions

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina, seventeen years after the end of bloodshed, remains a vastly divided society characterized by high levels of political corruption and the remains of war-based institutions. The process of reconciliation remains an unattainable goal. The contact amongst different ethnic groups in the country is rather minimal and lacks genuine restoration of peaceful relations based on trust. Pre-war multi-ethnic urban areas are now simply a matter of past and country has been ethnically torn apart. Institutions that are setup in the post-war period, instead of creating a framework for bridging past differences, and bringing people together further exacerbate these significant divides. Country remains plunged in a very bad socio-economic shape, while any hope for recovery simply remains an optimistic thinking. Building personal relationships among ethnic groups will continue to be insignificant for as long as the institutions in place provide no feasible framework.

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