The Best Legal Framework Cannot Compensate for the Lack of Political Will
The Best Legal Framework Cannot Compensate for the Lack of Political Will

Summary/Abstract: The Dayton peace agreement ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and established peace. One can hear different criticisms and objections about it – coming from international as well as BiH political and other circles. As the majority of such criticism and objections are related to Annex IV, the requests and proposals for transformation of the Agreement are predominantly related to Annex IV. This paper offers an analysis of whether such an approach is founded. In conditions of the existing dominance of ethno-nationalist philosophies, would a different constitutional solution remove the impediments to the development of internal trust and accelerated development of the country? The underlying thesis of this paper is that, regardless of all the wishful thinking that would not be possible. The conclusion is that there cannot be any acceleration of the integration processes in BiH without a change in the political paradigm. It would take place of the existing political paradigm by replacing national collectivities and their respective interests with the interest of human beings and their right to a normal life.

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