Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches. Bridging Differences in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches. Bridging Differences in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This essay focuses on the process of reconciliation in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina as a highest goal of the transitional justice. It discusses the methods that were used to achieve reconciliation and analyses the two perspectives: the top-down approaches and the bottom-up approaches. The main questions I am discussing are which approach of reconciliation as a final aim of the transitional justice is better, how the reconciliation is conditioned by the memory and the social categories emerging from the war and how it is juxtaposed to the ‘official’ justice promoted by the international community.

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