On the Relationship of Peacebuilding and Nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Project Directors Prof. Dr. Egbert Jahn Stipendium-funded 2005 – 2008

Research question/goal:

The study analyses the activities of the national actors in Bosnia-Herzegovina on peace- and nation-building since the end of the war in 1995. The study defines peacebuilding as building measures, which enable the co-existence of the ethnic groups in post-war situation based on sustainable peace. The study's principle question is which national actors have interest in ethnic-spreading peace- and nation-building and which peace and national political activities unfold in the new, ethnically determined entities and cantons. The hypothesis will be answered whether the separation of the ethnic groups leads to the reduction and regulation of inter-ethnic conflicts and, due to that, to avoidance of the mutual blockade politics eventually promoting nation-building. It is planned to work out how the choice of the peacebuilding measures for the specific post-war situation is influenced and under which criteria the prioritization takes place.

Part of project B4.1 European and Other International Peacebuilding Activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo


Publications

Book Chapters

  • Jahn, Egbert (2008): Die staatliche Transformation im Osten Europas. Die "zweite nationale Wiedergeburt" oder Nationalismus, nationale Bewegungen und Nationalstaatsbildung im spät- und postkommunistischen Europa seit 1985.. 19-82. Baden-Baden, Nomos. More
  • Jahn, Egbert (2008): The state transformation in the East of Europe: The "second national rebirth" or nationalism, national movements, and the formation of nation-states in late and post-communist Europe since 1985. 19-81. Baden-Baden, Nomos. More