25 years of Dayton "Constitution": RESTART for Bosnia and Herzegovina? Ways to a citizen society

The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) to end the bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. Part of the DPA was the constitution, which continues to this day and the results of the war and the separation of citizens* on an ethnopolitical basis. All efforts for a reak reform have so far been unsuccessful.

In a policy brief, experts of the West Balkan Strategy Group have presented the set of problems in a short and comprehensible way and formulated recommendations for action in order to come closer to a genuine citizen society in BiH. Stability and progress in the Balkans will not be achieved without a solution to the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And it is not only a regional problem, but a pan-European one.

Authors

Lejla Gačanica
Legal, independent researcher Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Izabela Kisić
Executive Director, Helsinki Committee for
Human rights Belgrade
Serbia
Petar Todorov
Institute of National History - Skopje
North Macedonia

In 2020, a number of international conferences and talks marking the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Accords brought the country back into the international spotlight. On this occasion, the Heinrich Böll Foundation's office in Sarajevo captured numerous voices on how to deal with the dysfunctional system and compiled them in an English-language publication.

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Language: Bosnian, German

Online Discussion Tuesday, 23 February 2021
25 Jahre Dayton-„Verfassung“: RESTART für Bosnien und Herzegowina?
Wege in die Bürger*innengesellschaft