Supporting Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenge of Reaching Self-Sustainability in a Post-War Environment.

Bosnia and Herzegovina in almost 14 years of the post-Dayton Accord  period has not become a functional state despite some successes achieved in regard to the Euro-Atlantic integration processes. Continuing ethno-centric argumentation in the discourses of the local political leadership and partly dysfunctional state institutions have produced a standstill in the process of bringing Bosnia and Herzegovina no nearer to positive peace.

Thus the Austrian National Defence Academy sponsored coordinators of a study group, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Management focusing on the  the necessities in terms of political, security, economic and educational means in an effort to reach a breakthrough in Bosnia and Herzegovina leading to self-sustainability, EU and NATO  membership.  The result of the study group produced a 218 page text contributing to constructive, positive ideas for reaching self-sustainability and overcoming the standstill in the  Balkans.