PrintBosnia-Herzegovina
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
| Issue Areas: Political Systems and International Relations, Post-Conflict Activities
As Bosnia and Herzegovina’s longtime tradition of religious coexistence is disappearing, USIP examines how education for new generations can improve multiethnic understanding in the postwar country.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
| Issue Areas: Civil Society, Education, Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Religion
As ethnic tensions heat up in Bosnia, USIP assesses several policy prescriptions and the areas of disagreement and agreement of how the international community and the region itself should address the problems in the struggling country.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe, United States
| Issue Areas: Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Post-Conflict Activities
June 25, 2009
Vice President Biden warned politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina that failure to adhere to the "only real path" ahead could bring a descent into "ethnic chaos." Yet the threat of violence for Bosnia and the corresponding actions that the leaders of Bosnia, the US, and the EU should take are hotly contested.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe
| Issue Areas: Civil Society, Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict Activities
USIP has been engaged in the Balkans since 1996, starting in Bosnia immediately after the signing of the Dayton Accords, and later expanding its activities to Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia.
Sustainable stability in the Balkans requires continuous international efforts, including the insights of those individuals with extensive in the field experience.
September 16, 2009
Daniel P. Serwer, who has supervised the United States Institute of Peace's (USIP) efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, Haiti and Sudan, will now lead the growing Centers of Innovation at the Institute, overseeing a wide range of cutting edge projects. Serwer, who was the founding vice president of USIP's Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, will now focus full-time on innovation in rule of law, religion and peacemaking, sustainable economies, media and conflict, science, technology, security sector reform, and other areas related to peacebuilding.
Countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Sudan
| Issue Areas: Economics and Development, Peacebuilding, Religion, Rule of Law, Science and Technology, Security and Strategy
As concerns grow about Bosnia’s post-war recovery, USIP presents its fourth report on recent developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina and various options to prevent a return to violence there. Author Jim O'Brien, who served as the presidential envoy for the Balkans in the 1990s, proposes a two-part strategy that includes stripping Bosnia's political parties of their nationalist appeal and speeding up the European Union accession process for the Balkans region.
