As facts about last weekend’s thwarted terrorist/paramilitary action in North Kosovo continue to come to light, one thing is clear- it is time for the West to commit to a policy overhaul in the region.
DPC breaks down the HJPC law amendment, and explains the impact.
Need a Dayton refresher? Watch the film Looking for Dayton….
The ruling by @ECHR_CEDH in the Kovačević v. #BiH case is, to repurpose a quote by then-VP Biden, a “big fucking deal”: it challenges central elements of the Dayton structure and business model of #Bosnia and Herzegovina politics.
Today, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is hosting Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and[…]
DPC’s latest blog explains why the deal that HiRep Schmidt is considering imposing is bad in terms of substance and process, will have implications beyond BiH, and is another sign of the reduction in democratic self-confidence in the EU and US.
Valery Perry uses a “fill in the blank” template to reflect on the Groundhog Day media cycles that we see surrounding policy problems that have become impossible to solve due to various interests, eroding citizen trust in democracy in the process.
Peter Lippman’s book on return, engagement, and peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina offers an excellent historical survey of the past 25+ years, while providing insights that should inform current policy making.
In this blog DPC’s Valery Perry considers the impact on democratic systems when it becomes structurally or socially impossible to exist as an independent, looking at recent cases in the US and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.