Peaceful change in the Balkans?
The pre-modern politics that still define the Balkans’ adaptation to the end of empire cannot be simply be pushed aside by visions of post-national Europe.... Read More
Serbia and Bosnia – uniting for justice?
Belgrade and Sarajevo are to sign an agreement to cooperate over war crimes cases, but some victims fear that it may not bring more convictions.
The culture of denial in Prijedor
According to the verdicts of the Hague Tribunal, this year marks the twenty-first anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Prijedor’s non-Serb population. However, as the... Read More
The challenges of transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia
TransConflict organized a third working breakfast – on the challenges of transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia – as part of its recently-launched project, ‘Understanding... Read More
Clinton-Ashton ukazes – now what?
Whatever happens, regarding the Balkans as a whole, international notables once again have demonstrated they have no real strategy regarding how to grapple with the... Read More
Bosnia’s transitional justice strategy requires political support
Two years after it was commissioned, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a draft Transitional Justice Strategy; however doubts persist as to whether the document will be adopted, despite widespread acceptance of its importance.
Bosnia from a peacebuilder’s perspective
Reverend Donald Reeves, a peacebuilder with substantial experience in the Balkans, offers five observations on Bosnia and Herzegovina, emphasising that the intervention of ‘experts’ must be on the invitation of the people themselves.
The Bosnian question
The Dayton deal (messy as it was) created conditions for ruling out certain options and managing the remaining options peacefully, thereby enabling other, slower processes... Read More
Bosnia’s ragged demise
With international interest in the country having dissolved, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s politicians can now start pulling apart the political architecture imposed by the US Government at Dayton, bringing the state ever closer to irretrievable collapse.
Recognizing Bosnia’s constituent ethnic identities
A solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina is to be found in the progressive development of an enlightened, conflict-transformative civic culture that recognizes the country's constituent ethnic identities along the lines of the Dayton Constitution and treats them in a non-discriminatory fashion.
A Bosnian tragedy – expert advice, elite consensus
n response to recent articles by Charles Crawford and Dražen Pehar, Jasmin Mujanović calls for a true politics of exchange, of dialogue and the embrace of the ideal of difference as Bosnia and Herzegovina’s penultimate strength, not its fatal flaw.
Bosnia – identity should go hand-in-hand with reconciliation
A Ugandan perspective on the problems faced by Bosnia and Herzegovina, calling for the country's citizens to build a new relationship amongst themselves; based upon a real understanding of each other’s respective needs, fears and aspirations.
Bosnia – fully ripe for another war?
The inter-relationship between the international community’s high representative, Alija Izetbegović and the issue of constitutional interpretation helps provide important answers to the question of what... Read More
Bosnia – the international community and the role of ‘experts’
Even if we accept that the international community had to act pragmatically in imposing the Dayton Accords and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s constitution, the current criticisms cannot merely... Read More
Reactionary Bosnia apologist refuses to apologise
As part of an on-going debate on constitutional reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Charles Crawford explains how the much-criticized Dayton constitution drew directly upon the political traditions and legal forms that existed previously in the former Yugoslavia.
Reactionary apologetics – the curious case of Bosnia’s “international partners”
In response to Charles Crawford’s article on ‘Bosnia’s irreconcilable principles’, Jasmin Mujanović refutes proposals for some sort of confederation and reasserts the need to strengthen... Read More
Bosnia’s irreconcilable principles
A response to Jasmin Mujanović's recent article, examining the irreconcilable principles that explain the Dayton Peace Accords and which suggest that, for now, some sort of confederation is the best possible outcome for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Constitutional reform in Bosnia – the democratic alternative
Insisting that chauvinist oligarchs produce substantive democratic reforms is a fool’s errand and it boggles the mind that this has been the guiding mantra of... Read More
Competing conceptions of reform in Bosnia
The first in a two-part analysis of constitutional change in Bosnia and Herzegovina, criticising the fallacies which have informed the international community’s attempts to “deal” with the country since the early nineties and examining competing conceptions of reform.
Mostar – a constant reminder
TransConflict is pleased to present a series of photographs exploring the constant reminders of Mostar's tragic past, its present difficulties and the challenges that lie ahead in the still divided town.
Tuzla – a changing memorial culture for a new vision of Bosnia
A new research film by the European CRIC Research Project analyses the transformation of a city’s cultural heritage to find a more united vision for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Federation under US influence in Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina
In neither Bosnia nor Iraq did the Americans anticipate that fragmentation and mutual communal suspicion would trump the power and political engineering of soldiers, diplomats, and the multitude of Western NGOs.
Another Bosnia and Herzegovina is possible
Following Dusan Babić's assertion that real politics are the only politics that truly matter, Jasmin Mujanović makes the case for why democratic participation can provide a way out from the kleptocracy of ethno-chauvinism and “international administration.”
Bosnia – only real politics matters
In response to Jasmin Mujanović's article, "Jim Crow in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which called for "a genuine popular mobilization”, Dusan Babic argues that real politics are the only politics that truly matter.
The battle for Mostar
A solution to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s other problems will be difficult to achieve without first securing an agreement between Croats and Bosniaks concerning the town of Mostar, where October's scheduled local elections are to be delayed.
