Valentin Inzko & Stef Jansen
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement, this panel will discuss Bosnia and Herzegovina’s road to recovery after the war 1992-1995. While the agreement had ended the fighting and the bloodshed, many have argued that the country remains frozen in time and deadlocked in a disfunctional state apparatus.
Is today Bosnia and Herzegovina functional multiethnic state? What does the three partite presidency along with the complex election rules that require candidates to define themselves by ethnicity, do to the Bosniak, Croat and Serb nationalism, and to the shared life in the country? What is the responsibility of the international community in the contemporary BiH politics? What it means to be an artist, do research on the streets of Sarajevo, or live in BiH with high unemployment rate, sharp ethnic and social demarcations, but also expereince or participate in a vibrant student/social movements determined to change the course of the country?